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the Hon. East India Company," by Dr. Horsfield and Mr. F. Moore 

 (2 vols., 8vo, 1853-1858), the work being actually done by the latter. 

 Many famous naturalists helped to make this Museum celebrated, and 

 the collections of Sir Stamford Raffles, Dr. Horsfield, Dr. McClelland, 

 Sir R. Strachey, Dr. Cantor, Colonel Sykes, and other well-known men 

 were preserved in the India Museum, which was at first kept at the 

 House of the East India Company in Leadenhall Street. After the 

 Mutiny the collections were removed to Fife House in Whitehall, and 

 there I can remember seeing tbem when I began my work on the King- 

 fishers. I can well recollect my kiud reception by Mr. Frederic Moore, and 

 with what reverence I handled the Kingfishers of that ancient collection. 

 The Horsfieldian types have unfortunately nearly all perished, having 

 been imperfectly preserved, and during the removal of the collections from 

 Leadenhall Street to Fife House, although they were carefully packed, 

 moths destroyed nearly the whole of them ; they are now in the British 

 Museum, but are nearly all devoid of feathers. The destruction of these 

 valuable specimens has always been a source of great grief to Mr. Moore. 



The preservation of birds in the older days was not much considered, 

 and the specimens obtained by Colonel Sykes and Dr. McClelland were all 

 preserved in a rough and ready manner, so that they have not withstood 

 the ravages of time. Sir Stamford Raffles does not appear to have made 

 many skins, but to have chiefly presented coloured drawings of the species 

 he described. 



Among the Javanese birds of Horsfield's collecting were the types of 

 the following species : — Hypotriorchis severus, Spizaetus limnaetus, Astur 

 soloensis, Polioaetus ichthyaetus, Glaucidium castanopterum, Scops lempiji, 

 S. rufescens, Bubo orientalis, Ketupa ketupa, Phodilus badius, Syrnium 

 seloputo, Collocalia linchi, Macropteryx Medio, Gaprimidgus macrurus, 

 G. affinis, Eurylxmus javanicus, Garcineutes pulckellus, Halcyon melan- 

 opterus (= H. cyaniventris), Alcedo meninting, A. biru (= A. beryllina), 

 Hemipus obscurus, Buchanga cineracea, Lanius bentet, Graucalus javensis, 

 Brachypteryx montana, Oreocichla varia, Merula javanica, Myiophoneus 

 Havirostris, Arrenga cyanea, Turdinus sepiarius, Timelia pileata, Pomato- 

 rhinus montanus, Pycnonotus bimaculatus, Pycnonotus simplex, H. & M. 

 (= P. plumosus), Pycnonotus analis (Horsf.), Rubigula dispar, Griniger 

 gularis, Iole maclellandi, Chloropsis viridis, G. javensis, Zosterops flava, 

 Z. javanica, JEgitliina scapularis, Oriolus xanthonotus, Copsychus 

 amcenus, Siphia banyumas, Stoparola indigo, Orthotomus sepium, Prinia 

 familiaris, Cettia montana, Mirafra javanica, Gorone enca, Phrenotrix 

 temia (= Grypsorhina varians), Ghotorhea javensis, Xantholeema australis, 

 Miglyptes tristis, TJiriponax javensis, Ghrysocolaptes strictus, Chrysonotus 

 tiga, Gecinus puniceus, Zanclostomus javanicus, Surniculus lugubris, 

 Chalcococcyx xanthorhynchus, G. basalis, Phcenicophaus melanognathus 

 ( = Rhinococcyx curvirostris),Arboricola orientalis, Heteropygia acuminata, 

 Scolopax saturata, Ardeola speciosa, Dendrocygna arcuata, and D. 

 javanica. 



The above list has been taken from Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue 

 and my " Hand-list of Birds," but there may still be a few of Horsfield's 

 types which have escaped m}^ notice. A certain number came into the 

 Museum, but many were eaten up by moth. 



Of Raffles' types many were represented by actual specimens as well 

 as by drawings, and these came with the rest of the collection from the 

 East India Company's Museum. It is interesting to see from the intro- 

 ductory remarks to Horsfield and Moore's Catalogue that the early 

 collections made by Horsfield were presented by Raffles, as Lieutenant- 



