Birds. 



Cormorants (Steganopodes), etc., Grebes (PocUcipedtformea). [93. LO 1. 

 1-15; 93. 10. 2, 1-689; 94. 6. 20, L-220; 95. 2. 10, 1-166.1 (VoL 

 of the "Catalogue of Birds.") 



7 types: (TraplocepAoZtM davtsoni, Butorides Bpodiogasier, Ardttta 

 pulchra, Phdethon indicus, Peleeantu longirostris, Podicipes ctibip 

 P. albescens, 



761 specimens of Geese and Ducks (Anseriformes). [94. 6. 1, 1-761.] 

 Vol. xwii. of the " Catalogue of Birds." 



2 types: Cygntta wiwini, Nettion oCbigulare. 



15,965 specimens of eggs. [91. 3. 20, 1-9999; 02. 9. 1, L-5966. 



This splendid collection has been described by Mr. Bume himsell in 

 his "Nests and Eg^s of Indian Birds," Svo, 1873, and again in Mr. I 

 edition of the above work (3 vols., 8vo, 1889-90), also in the " Catalogue 

 of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum" (vols, i.-v., 1901-1906). 



In the formation of this collection Mr. Hume received the assistance 

 of a devoted body of Indian oologists, and the notes that they 

 arc published in Mr. Hume's books quoted above. Among the best-known 

 of the contributors were General G. P. L. Marshall and his bi 

 Colonel C. H. T. Marshall, Colonel C. T. Bingham, Messrs. J. Gammie, 

 L. Mandelli, E. W. Oates, W. Davison, W. Blewitt, B. Thompa . 

 Morgan, and Miss Cockburn. 



Mr. Allan Hume is the youngest son of the celebrated Joseph Hume, 

 M.P., and has spent the best part of his life in India, where 1 • 

 Commissioner of Customs and Secretary to the Government of 

 and has held many other appointments. During the mutiny li- 

 the women and children from Etawah, where he was in command 

 time, as well as all the archives and treasure in the city, all of which In- 

 brought in safety to Agra. Besieged by the mutineers in the la: t • r 

 he took a brave part in the defence, and received his C.B. for gallantry in 

 the held. 



He will, however, be principally remembered for the wonderful 

 collection of Indian birds and eggs, which he made between the 

 1862-1885. Not only did he collect vigorously himself, but he em] 

 naturalists in all parts of the Indian Empire, and himself conducted 

 ospeditions to Sind and the Mekran Coast, the Andaman and Nicobar 

 Islands, the Laccadives, and the hill regions of Manipur, etc. 



His assistant, William lluxton Davison, was provided with a stall' of 

 taxidermists, elephants, etc., and travelled for Mr. Hume in v.. 

 distrirts of British India, during the space of 13 years. Davison was a 

 skilled taxidermist and collector, and his explorations in Tenasseril 

 the Malay Peninsula resulted in the discovery of many new and inter- 

 esting species. Mr. Hume also supplemented his own endeavours I 

 purchase of several other well-known collections, Buch as the Late M . 

 Mand<lli\s series of Sikhim and Tibetan birds, the late Mr. W. E. I 

 collections from the plains of India, and many others. For fifteen 

 he brought out a journal, *' Stray Feathers" (1878 I — '. in which he 

 published the results of his own efforts and those of his cofleag 



The Hume Collection was one of the 

 made to the Nation, and added to the Museum, which had previoui 

 a ]K)or series of Indian birds, the largest and most complete 0oll< 

 of birds and egss from the British Indian Empire the world has ■ • 



The Hume Collection contained 268 typ B. 



Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. 



•177 birds from Hungary. Pn ■ [92.6. 10, 1-104; 92.7.9, 



1-373.1 



