Birds. 13 I 



Pearson (Hbnby J.). 



13 specimens from Waigats, Novaya Zemlya, efc . • 



1-13.] 



Included skins, spirit-specimens and nestlings of leveral raw Arctic 

 . Limonites mint/hi. Anthut cervintu, etc. 



18 eggs of the Little Stint (Limonites minuta) from V 

 and Dolgoi Island, N.Russia. Presented. [1900.11.10,1 l- 

 Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus., iii., p. 53, 1902). 



pecimens of Totanus ftucus, imm. from Russian Lapland. P 

 wnted. [1904.5.12,1-3.] ' 



Mr. Henry Pearson was bom in L850 al <"i. dwell, N 

 idjoining village to Beeston, where John Wolley resided, when in 

 England). He was prevented until L891 from devoting much I 

 ornithology, by the more urgent pressure of business. In tl .• 

 and his brother, Charles Pearson, went to Norway : and, havin ' 

 I small steamer, explored many of the Lofoden Islands, from 

 in the north to Kost, the most southern one. In L892 be q 

 time during the nesting-season on the Dovrefjeld and the district round 

 the Nordfjord; and again visited these parts in L902. An inter 

 excursion, on which Messrs. Edward Bidwell and diaries Pean 

 panied him, was made to the Lofoden [stands, Porsanzer Fjord and other 

 parts of Northern Norway in 1893, and recorded in the ' Ibis 1 fof 



The following year was devoted to an exploration 

 Fiskevotra of Iceland; the results were published in the ' Ibis ' for 



Id 1895 a more extended voyage was attempted, 

 Zemlya. Mr. Pearson was accompanied by Colonel H. W. Feilden, the 

 Etev.H. 11. Slater and Mr. 0. Pearson; hut the unsuitabflity oi ; 

 chartered tor the expedition prevented his plans from being carri< 

 in full. A short excursion was made to the north of Norway in 

 when Mr. Pearson ascertained that most of the red gulls 1 



lectors were laid by Lams argentatus. Warned by the fail 

 a larger vessel was chartered in 1897 and a more BUCO BSful 1 

 made to Novaya Zemlya, his companions being Colonel Feilden and 

 Dr. Frederick Curtis. The results obtained in L895 and 189*3 were 

 published in "Beyond Petsora Eastward," a book which ha 

 appendices by Colonel Feilden on the botany and geology of the countrii i 

 visited. Mr. Pearson's visit to Russian Lapland, with Mr. C. 1 



was recorded in the 'Ibis' for October i ir. In L901 he 



again went to that country and made a short stay on the i 

 on the opposite side of the White Sea; while L903wasspcn1 intheii 

 to the south of Kola, the old capital of Russian Lapland. M 

 last book, "Three Summers among the Birds of Russian Lapland, 

 a detailed account of these expeditions. 



Pease (Sir Axfbed E.). 



•• birds from Somali Land and Southern Ai 

 . L. 20, 1-386.] 

 1 1 birds from the Transvaal. Presented. [1906. 8. 13, I 

 This collection represents the resull of M ' • 



Abyssinia. Besides many rare and mt< restii g to the J 



tion, were further added the types of thn ■ ' 



lavendulm, Upupa intermedia, and - 

 wns described by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Granl ind Mr. P. J. R 

 1 [bis' tor L901 (pp. 607 699, pi. xhi.), where son* 

 will be found. 



