Birds. 



Ince (Mrs.). 



42 birds, principally from China. Presented. [82. L2. LO, I 



Capt. Ince saw some service in China, and was, so 1 . 



Informed, a friend of John Reeves, who gave so many specimens to the 

 Museum. Gould also knew him, and named a Paradise Flycafc I er after 

 him — Muscipeta incei, (Vein Shanghai. The type of this specii 

 given by Gould to the [ndia Museum (cf. Moore, Cat B. Mus. E. 1. C< .. 

 i., p. 31)2). In the "Catalogue" a reference is made t<» the origii i 

 icription as "Gould, l'.X.S., 1852," but the bird was never described 

 in the "Proceedings." Capt. Ince seems to have been a friend of 

 MacGillivray's, as among the birds presented by his widow was the type 

 of Nectarinia av&tralis, Gould, winch we may presume wai 

 Capt. [nee by MacGillivray or by Gould. 



India, Secretary of State for. 

 Sft [ndia Museum. 



India Museum, Calcutta. 



Set aho Anderson, John; Blanford, W. T. 



200 birds from Yun-nau and Upper Burma, collected by Dr. John 



Anderson. Presented. [76. 4. 7, 1-200.] 



418 specimens from Yarkand. Exchanged. [91. 7. 22, 1 il*.] 

 This was a set of the duplicates of the collection obtained by the 

 second Yarkand Mission under Sir Douglas Forsyth. The col i 

 fully catalogued by me in the report published by the India Office. To 

 this publication Mr. Hume presented several beautiful plates which he- 

 had had drawn for his projected " Birds of India." 



A specimen of Nijroca baeri from Bengal. [98. 4. 18, 1.] 



45 birds in spirits. Presented. [99. 4. 1G, 1-17; L900. 7. 5, L-28. 



India Museum, London. 



23 birds from India. Presented by the Hon. E. I. Co. [42. 11. B, 

 7-29.] 



Mostly common species, but amongst the specimens was the type i f 

 Thidorhynchus strutfo rsi. 



64 specimens from Shoa, collected by Sir \V. Cornwallis Harris. 

 Presented by the Hon. E. I. Co. [45.6.6,1 54.1 



A set of the birds obtained during the expedition to Bhoa pron 

 by the Hon. E. India Co. 



14 specimens from the Himalayas (mostly Bodgsonian Bpecimi 

 Presented by the Hon. E. 1. Co. [56. 5. 21, 7-2 



6015 specimens from various parts of the Indian Empire. 

 bv the Secretary of State for India. [60. 1. L6, L-584; 79.11.28, 

 1-700 ; 80. 1. 1, 1-4731.] 



The transference of pari of the India Museum collection t.> the British 

 Museum began in 1860, but the final incorporation of the old 0cm] 

 oollection took place in 1880 (vide infra). 



172 birds from Bhoa, collected by sir \Y. Cornwallis Harri*. 61. 

 l-:i : 61. 5. 8, 1 L38.] Presented by the Secretary i f State I I 



In this collection was the t\ nemdUa dienemelli iKupp. ex 



HolSt'.). 



The above records chronicle the dispersal of the , | M :m of 



the old Bast India Company, and its incorporation in ti 

 Collection. The history of 'the bird-collection i* epitomised h 



"Introductory Remarks" to the " Catalogue i I Birds in the M 



