Birds. l'»7 



Kerr (J. Graham). 



Set Page, Capt, (tn/m, p. 137). 



Kershaw (J. C). 



.". eggs and •'! nests from Macao, South china. Presented. I' 



6. 29, L-6.] 



Kew, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens. 



43 specimens from Bogota collected by Mr. Purdie [81. L2. 3, I 

 97. 1. 25, 1 ; 99. 8. 25, L-2.] 



Specimens of the Gentuo Penguin (Pygotoelia paptto)\ Sheldrake 

 (Tadorna tadorna)i 2 Pelecans (PefecontM onooroto/iM); I i 

 Goose (Cereopsis nova hollandix) \ and a nestling Stork (0 

 Presented. [l'JOO. 8. 17, 1; 1901. 5. 5, 1 j L903. 3. 6, L-2; ] 



7. 5, 1 ; 1904. 5. 31, 1.] 



King (Philip Parker). 



See Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus. (N.1L), vol. i., Botany, p. 159. 



King (Dr.). 



Collected for Mr. A. 0. Hume in Mt. Abu. His B] ire in the 



Hume Collection. 



Kirk {Sir John), K.C.B., G.C.M.G. 



115 birds from the ShirS River and Lake Nyasa, and from other 

 of Zambesia. [63. 12. 30, 1-39; 71. •!. 29, 20-31 ; 84. 2. 6, L-64.J 



These specimens were collected by Sir John Kirk when he was chief 

 officer to the Livingstone Expedition of 1858-1864. Tl ■ >n was 



described by Dr. Sclater in the "Ibis" for 1SG4 (pp. 301-307, pL viii.), 

 and by Sir John himsell (t.c, pp. 307-339). There were also many 

 specimens obtained by the expedition and prepared by him, which n 



iseum through the Foreign Office, by the direction of Ear) Russell. 

 [60. 12. 31, 1-193 ; 03. 12. 8, 1-43.] 



During the preparation of their work on the Birds Africa, 



Drs. Pinsch and llartlaub visited the British Museum and described 

 ■ I species which had remained undetermined in OUT cabinets. Among 

 these birds, described in the "Vogel Ostafrika's " by Drs. b and 



llartlaub, were Nicator chloria (p. 360), Hwhantornit xanthq 

 (p. 399), and Erythrocercw livingstonei (p. 302). 



Mr. G. R. Gray described a new Touraco a- TuraetU h 

 (P.Z.S., 1864, p. 1 1') and 1 named the Zambesi Babbling Thr i 

 opus kirki (Sharpe, ed. Layard, B. S. Afr.. p. 213, 1^7.~>). 



While Consul-General at Zanzibar Sir John Kirk set 

 various parts of Easl Africa, Lamo, Melindi, and 

 and he himself visited the Comoro Islands cy'. Shelley, !'./..>.. l -•'•'. 

 pp. »;7.;-'i7'.»: L881, pp. 561 602, pi. Hi.). Several n< 

 described by Capt. Shelley, to whom thr collecti 



Of. "Who's Who," L904, p. 81 



Kirtland (Professor J. P.). 



22 specimens from Ohio. [ 1 1. 1. L6, 1 -22.} 



Profess >r Kirtland was a well-kn »wn / 



nineteenth century. Dendroxa hirtiandi was named after him by 

 Professor Baird. 



