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Zoology. 



Vieira (Dr. Lopez). 



35 birds from Portugal. Presented. [86. 11. 20, 1-9 ; 86. 12. 19, 

 1-12 ; 87. 3. 18, 1-14.] 

 Vienna, Hof. Museum. 



7 birds from Austria. Presented. [72. 10. 26, 46-52.] 



Villiers (Mrs. ¥.). 



7 Weaver Finches, died in captivity. Presented. [1905. 7. 11, 1-2 ; 

 1905. 7. 27, 1-2 ; 1905. 8. 4, 1 ; 1905. 9. 2, 2 ; 1905. 9. 17, 1.] 



Villiers (Col. E.). 



2 specimens of the Capercailzie (Tetrao urogallus) from Aberdeen- 

 shire. Presented. [1905. 6. 2, 1-2.] 



Vincent (Capt. B.). 



A specimen of Querquedula formosa from Corea. Presented. [1904. 

 6. 1, 1.] 

 Vingoe (Mr.). 



See Janson, E. W. 



Vorderman (Dr.). 



11 birds from Java, including the type of Sipltia vordermani, Sharpe, 

 and Turdinus lepidopleurus and Corythocichla epilepidota, new to the 

 collection. 



Dr. Vorderman is Government Physician at Batavia, and has written 

 much on the Avifauna of Java. Hearing from me that there were some 

 Javanese species unrepresented in the Museum, he very kindly sent the 

 above specimens. 

 Waddell (Surgeon-Col. L. A.). 



21 specimens from Darjiling, including the type of Oarrulax waddelli. 

 Presented. [96. 6. 30, 1-21.] 



Colonel Waddell was attached to the Tibet Mission of 1903-4, and 

 collected several birds. These, however, did not come to the British 

 Museum with the rest of the collections of the expedition, but were sold 

 privately. 



Wakefield (Bev. Thomas). 

 See Shakpe, Pv. Bowdler. 



Waldo. 



See Meade-Waldo. 



Walker (Theodore). 



The groups of the Magpie, Linnet, Nightingale, Skylark, Moorhen, 

 and Great Crested Grebe, with the nests and eggs, from Leicestershire, for 

 the Exhibition Gallery. Presented. [78. 12. 31, 7-14.] 



114 birds from various localities in Great Britain, mostly Sea-birds 

 from St. Kilda, Isle of Skye and Lincolnshire. Presented. [79. 4. 21, 

 1-9; 79. 12. 5, 1-8 ; 81. 7. 13, 1-34; 81. 10. 20, 1-34; 82. 10. 12, 1-29.] 



Wallace (Dr. Alfred Russel), F.B.S. 

 See Stevens, S. 

 27 Accipitres from Amazonia. Purchased. [73. 3. 19, 1-27.] 

 Dr. Wallace very kindly allowed me to have his collection of Birds of 



