Birds. 445 



Ramage (G. A.). 



EtOT kl SOOIETT. 



Ramsay (Dr. E. P.). 



.\ Bkin and skull of the Tooth-billed Bower-bird S 

 !, new to the collection. Presented. PB3. LI. L6, 1. 2 



19 Bpecimena from the Solomon Islands. Presented. [95.12. 

 1-19.] 



In exchange for specimens from the British Museum, l'r. Rai 

 presented several rare birds from the Solomon [stands*, an i the 



types (or co-types) of Bhipidura rubrofrontcUOf Pachyoephala eoUar\ 

 Aplonis feadi nsis. 



While Director Of the Australian Museum Si Sydney, Dr. 1 



the status of that Museum to the first rank among the natural 

 history institutions in the Southern Hemisphere. lb 



but especially when I was writing my first 1 k, the " Monograph 



Kingfishers," when I exchanged my collection of British birds' 

 him for specimens of Australian Kingfishers, which 

 to me at the time. 



Ramsay (Colonel R. G. Wahdlaw). 



103 birds from Sumatra (C. Bock), Karen Sills, Burma, and other 

 parts of the Indian Empire. Presented. [80.4.21, 1 12; BO. 

 l-.'l : 81. 7. 29, 1-17; 83. 2. 6, 1-13: 83. 11. G, 1-7.] 



These were duplicates from his collection, and among them m 

 number of species unrepresented in the British Museum. Colonel Wardlaw 

 Ramsay presented many rare specimens of birds which were much \ 



scription in the "Catalogue of Birds," and he lent me B] e 

 all occasions. 



.186 specimens of Asiatic Birds. The Tweeddale Collection. 



< >n the death of his uncle, the 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, I • 

 as a bequest, the magnificent collection of Asiatic birds formed by the 

 Marquess, together with the unique Tweeddale library of scientific I 

 In the year 1887, Colonel Wardlaw Bamsay presented the whole of this 

 great collection and library to the nation. 



B06 Accipitres [Tweeddale collection]. Presented. [87.11.1,1 - 



Contained types of Spihrnia peuHdut and Polio) 

 SpisoHiu phUippensis new to the collection. 



850 Striges [Tweeddale collection]. Presented. [^7.11. LI, 



Types of Scops everetti, Ninox spuocepTwUo, \. 

 gwrneyi. 



1355 Coruidx, Dicruridx, OHoUdm, etc. [Tw( 

 sented. [87.11.20,1-1365.] 



Types of Corone puaUlo, Monueodia 

 palawomeruit, 0. assimilis, <>. ooruobrii . 0, rami 



mirdbUis, Chibia pctfawanensiSj 0. ' 



chapmani, />'. mouhoti, /<'. waU 



•J07 Eurylrnmid* and Pittidm I 

 type of Eydrornii soror. Presented. [87. L2. 1. 1 



L404 Oampophagidm and Mxucicapidm [Tw( 

 L [87. r_'. 80, L-L404.] 



Ty|- 1 of EdoliUoma alU ruma, E. m 1 • 

 CycmomyiascosUttis, Abrornu eAryi 



la, Siphia herioti, NiUaro ouoopratto^ 

 gone sin,/ 



