'Birds. L53 



Additional Observations on the Birds of the Province of Fohtten. 



Ibis, 1897, 600 610. 

 Description of some apparently now Birds from China [bis, 



1897, p. 451. 

 Orant, W. B. O. — Description of new Birdi obtained fi « >n> Fohki.n. 



Ibis, 1898, p. 297. 

 Further Observations on the Bird* of the Province of I"« » 1 1 K i * - 1 1 . 



China. Ibis, 1898, p. 328. 

 Blatbb(H. II.). — On a Further Collection of I'.irds. madi I M 



La Touche and Kick. it, from \. V7. FohMen [bia, I897i pp It • 



17t'., pi. iv. 



Rickett (0, B.) and La Touche (J. I>.). 



Ill birds from Fohkien. Presented. [97. L2. 8, 1 17; 98. L. 28j 

 1-97.] 



In this collection were the types of several new Bpecies, Oryptciopha 

 riekettif C. sinensis, FuJretta gutiattcofflis, Suihor i davidiana, ' 

 russtUa, Lepocestes sinensis, Oecinuhis viridanw, 



Ridley (H. N.). 



Sre Royal Society. 

 Mr. Ridley was for some years an assistant in the Botanical 1 >«•] -.irt - 

 inent of this Museum. In 1887 he made an expedition t<> the island <-t" 

 Fernando Noronha, where he discovered two new Bpeciea of bird I 

 ridhyaua, Sharpe, and Vino graeffirostris, Sharpe. Be is Don I 1 

 of the Botanic Gardens in the Straits Settlements. 



Ringer (F.). 



254 specimens from Nagasaki. Presented. [84. 1. L6, 1-254.] 

 The above collection consisted of the duplicates which Ifr. S 



did not require from Mr. dinger's series: it added one Bpeci( . B 



oonsobrina, to the Museum. The Seebohm Bequest contains a full 



"i Nagixiki birds from Mr. IJinger. 



Riocour (Comte de). 

 See Boucahd, A. 

 The Comte de Riocour possessed one of the most famous prh 

 collections of birds in the world. Vieillot described many types from it, 

 and Borne new species, such as the Swallow-tailed Kite of Africa (Nam 

 riocouri) were named after the old Count. The present Comte< B 

 was not a naturalist, and the collection was disposed of to M , i ; 

 who made the first offer of it to the British Museum. I M 

 oompany, 1 made a journey to ti. de B 



and selected all the Vieillotian types I could find, and I • M 

 obtain [men of the extinct Btarling ol Ifauril 



tortus). The collection consisted i ntirely of mounted birds, and . c 

 a large room in the chateau, being arranged li 

 being perched on white stands, and the windows rigidly dai 

 Venetian blinds. It is due to the care with which tl 

 excluded that this old collection had remained in 

 ration. Besides the Ms. lab la of the old Comt 

 found from the writing on several ol the stands that, in 

 Vieillot, Prince Bonaparte and Jul a V< rn i 

 collection and determined some of the i ! 



HptM, the collection also contained a fine • 

 Auk (Plauhu tin/" n 



