Birds. 409 



Lansdell (Rev. Br.). 



See GrERBARD, E. 



Dr. Lansdell brought back from Kashmir and Tibel a Bmall coll 

 of birds, containing Bome species of interest to the Museum <</'. i,i 

 on " Russian Central Asia," 1885). 



Larkin (Colonel Edgar). 



9 birds from Upper Egypt. Presented. [93. 7. 12, L-9.1 



La Touche (J. D.). 



86 nests of birds from N. W. Fi>likien. Presented. r «.'!>. ■_■. :< I ;<.- 

 99. '-'. 21, 1-9.] 



57 birds and eggs from Kuatun. Presented. [99. 8. 16. 1-29 • L901 

 1. 20, 1-28.] 



2 birds from Formosa and Chinkiang, including one Bpecies oew to the 

 collection. Presented. [1 ( J05. 6. 13, 1-2.] 



Mr. La Touche is an energetic collector of birds, and especially of 

 in China, and has presented a very interesting series I 

 Museum [c/. Ibis, 1887, pp. 46 ( J, 470; 18 ( >2, pp. -1O0--1 .",<», 177 



1895, p. 305; 1896, pp. 489-495 ; 1897, pp. 138, 169-176, pi. iv.,fl 10 ; 



189S, pp. 328-333, 356-373; 1899, pp. 169-210, 400-431; L90 , 

 34-51; Bull. B.O.C., vii., p. 37 (1897); viii., p. 9 (1898)]. 



Laugier de Chartrouse (Baron). 



.".09 specimens from his collection. Purchased. [37. 6. 10, 372 

 Baron Laugier was coadjutor with Temminck in the " Plai 

 Coloriees." The sale of his collection took place in Paris in L837, 

 a copy of the Catalogue in the British Museum bears the following 

 "La vente publique de cette collection se fera au mois de juin L837. 

 Le jour en sera lixe ulterieurement par les journaux jusqu'a cette epoque. 

 On traiterait a 1'amiable de la totalite." This Bale-catalogue was ; 

 at Aries and sent to Dr. J. E. Gray, and we are further inform* d : "La 

 rapidite* avec laquelle a ete fait ce travail, et L'absence du propri< 

 n'ont paspermis de suivre d'autre classification que celle des an 

 galerie." Unfortunately no attempt seems to have been made at th< 

 to identify any of the specimens described and figured in the " 

 Coloriees," and many of them have since been given away as dupli 



Layard (Edgar Leopold), C.M.G. 



See also Higgins, T. ; Tristram, Canon. 

 27 eggs from Ceylon. Presented. [o'6. 12. 6, 1-27.] 

 106 eggs from South Africa. Presented. [69. 10. 8, 1- 1 

 Mr. Layard was an ornithologist from hifl youth, and wh( 

 servant in Ceylon, where he served from 1846 to L8i silent 



work, as will be Been by his papers in the second s< Lnnals 



and Magazine of Natural History " (vols. siL (1853), pp. 97-107, 

 176, 262-272; xiii. (1854), pp. 123-131, 212-218, 267 

 xiv. (1864), pp. 57-64, 105-115, 264-272). 



Layard has given the following account of hi 

 'a "Birds of Ceylon " (Introduction, p. ix.): "I arrived in I 

 in March 1846, and for some time, having QO employment, ai 

 leisure in collecting for my more than friend, Dr. Templeton, i 



nursed me through a dangerous illness, and in whom I round 



spirit. My chief attractions there w< 



island : but 1 always carried a light sinirlc-harrelled gun in a >:• 



