Birds. M 



U Warblers from New Zealand. Presented .2,1-11.] 



4 specimens of Mergw austrcdis. Presented. [1904.8. . I l.) 

 11 birds from the Kermadec [stands, New Zealand, and Auckland 

 [glands. Presented. | L905. 2. 2, 1-11.] 



WIh'n Governor of New Zealand, the Earl of Ranfiu i the 



Museum several collections of birds, among them being a new 

 Cormoranl (Phalacrocorax ranfurlyi, Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B.O.O., xi., 



l'.lOl), from Bounty Island, and rare Bpecies, such 



dimidiate and Ptilopus raratongen sis from Raratonga I land. 



" Rattlesnake," Voyage of H.M.S. 



See Stanley, < 'apt. ( >u kn ; Macqillivray, J. 



Ray (J.) 



L47 sterna of British birds. Presented. [46.4.7,1 1 IT-] 

 1 never have been able to find out who Mr. Ray was, but 



• '.Mid series of sterna to the Museum, as is shown in Gray' M l 



British Birds," L863, and in the "Catalogue of Birds." 



Rayner (T. M.). 



•Hi birdsfrom the Fiji Islands (" Voy. ff.M.S. fferald' ntecL 



[5G. 8. ."»0, 1-46.] 



Included the type of Pachycephalia vitiensis. 



Dr. Rayner was apparently a medical officer on board tie' // 

 when John Mart Jillivray was' naturalist [-/./•.]. A subsequent col 

 made by Rayner was presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 

 L0, l n.] It contained the type of Aplonis ■ A 



vitiensis, Layard ; Sharpe, Cat. P.., riii., p. LSI, 1890). 



Reed (E. C). 



.See Gerrard, E. 

 Mr. Reed is a well-known Chilian naturalist, who u 

 Collections in the province of Santiago. A series. if his birds i^ in the 

 Museum, from the Sclater and Salvm-Godmaii Collections. 



Reeves (John). 



TJT birds from India and China. [88. 8. 26, 1: 38. L<X 29, 11 "■. 



-7; 46. •). 13, 1-11 ; 51. 8. 27, W 71.] 



Mr. John Reeves was [nspector ol Tea al the Hon. I 

 Company's establishment at Canton, and i 'I study 



natural history and resources of China (see B. B. \\ Iward 



u Libraries," p. 1*0. He gave many interesting specimen 

 and the magnificent Pheasant, Syrmaticu ,r Mm 



. D . .i. B. Gray. 



Of. Diet Nat Biogr., xlvii.. p. H6. 



Reeves (.John Kussell). 



- .i of the above, for thirty y< 

 Company at Canton (see Woodward, Ix.). 



>■/. also Sir John Riohardson, Reporl Brit \ '-• 



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