Birds. 403 



Jayakar {Surgeon-General A. S.). 



174 birds from Muscat. Presented. [88. LO, L3, L-13; 91. 2. l, ' 

 9a 5. 16, 1-75; 99. 2. 6, L-30.] 



The first collection made by Dr. Jayakar was presented by Colonel 

 "Miles, the Governor of Muscat, to the Museum, which baa n » i 

 lubsequent consignments of valuable birds from Dr. Jayakar bim i 

 described the original collection in the "Ibis^for L886 (pp. L62 L68, 

 pi. vi.), where a new Eagle-Owl (Bubo milesi) was figured. A new Bee- 

 sater (Merops muscatensis, Sharpe) waa figured by Mr. EL B. Dresser in 

 his " Monograph of the Bee-eaters " (pi. 10). 



Jerdon (T. C). 



147 birds from various parts of India. Presented. [!.".. 1. LO, 1 -~>7 : 

 . 30, 1 51; 46. 11. 9, 16-49; 47. 3. 18, 11-15.] 



Most of Dr. Jerdon's specimens were registered and published BS from 

 " Madras.'' This may be true as regards the Presidency from whic 

 came, but it is certain that his early collections were made in tin- Nilghin 

 Hills, though he also travelled through the Carnatic, the Northern I 

 the Wynaad, etc. 



M<»st of the types of his new species appear to have been present* 

 the Museum, but not all. I have discovered the following types 

 in the collection: — Ochromela nigrorufa, Turdvlus wardi, MeriUa 

 si/iii/Iima, Ilypsipetes nilghiriensis, Prinia sylvatica, Acrocephalua 

 agricola, Pycnonotus xanthohxma, Malacocercus orientalia (= Orateroptu 

 canorus), Megalurus striatus (= Ghastornia locustelloidea), Mirafra 

 arythroptera, M. affinis, M. hayi (= Spizalauda deva), Dendrooopua 

 ellioti (= Chrysocolaptes festivus), Gecinus chlorigaster, Rhopodytea 

 viridirostriSt Osmotreron bicincta, Crocopus chlorigaster, L<>/>/f; 

 sclateri, Tragopan blythi. 



The types of Muscicapula superciliary, Munia pectoralia, A 

 timHtSf Ducula cuprea, lyngipicus hardwickei, Micropterntu gularis, 

 Thriponax hodgsoni, and Macrorhamphus semipalmattu <l> Dot 

 appear to have come to the Museum. One of the types of Hirundo 

 tytleri was given by Jerdon to Gould, and by the latter to Seebohm 

 98.10.20,187]. 



17 birds from Upper Burma. Presented. [62. 1. 17, 12-28.] 



Included the types of Crypsirliiuu cucullata, Pericrocohu alb}/ 

 Pycnonotus blanfordi, Pyctorhis altirostris, Orthotomuacoronai . S 

 nemoricola, aud S.burmanica. These species were described by B 

 (•l.A.S. Beng., xxxi., p. 342, 1862) and by Jerdon himself (P 

 1861, p. 191), 1862, p. 19). 



Jerdon was only sixty-one years of age when he died, and I knew him 

 very well after his retirement from India. He entered the service i 

 Hon. East India Company in 1835, and in 1869 he was a "Retired 

 Deputy [nspector-General of Hospitals." His early work was done in 

 the Madras Presidency, but he afterwards visited other parts of the 

 Empire, discovered some new Bpeciea in Sikhim and again in Assam and 

 Burma, receiving from the Government "t" [ndia special facilities foe 

 travel and collecting. His "Birds of India" was an epoch-making 

 and laid the foundation for the splendid work which was inaugural 

 Mr. Hume and his successors (c/. "II. is," 1872, p. 342; 1' 

 xxix., p. 338). 



An excellent memoir of Jerdon and his work was publisl I 

 old friend, Sir Walter Elliot, in the "Pi dure 



Naturalists' Club." 



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