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*> Lord Tweeddale on Birds from 
between the Lieutenant-Governor and these two Frenchmen 
led, in about twelve months, to a cessation of their labours 
and to their departure from Bencoolen; and Sir Stamford was 
obliged to undertake the description of the materials col¬ 
lected himself, or to allow the results to be published in 
France. Hence his papers in the e Linnean Transactions^* * * § . 
The number of species therein catalogued and more or less 
described is about 168. But some birds obtained in the 
Prince-of-Wales Island and Singapore are included; and a 
few species, such as Psittacus ornatus and P. sumatranus, 
appear to have been introduced into the list through oversight 
and on the strength of caged birds. 
In 1830 Lady Baffles published a memoir f of her late hus¬ 
band, to which was appended a catalogue, by Vigors, of the zoo¬ 
logical specimens collected in Sumatra under the superinten¬ 
dence of Sir S. Baffles, and by Dr. Horsfield of those in Java. 
About 194 species from Sumatra are enumerated, that locality 
being stated in each instance; and some species additional to 
Sir Stamfords list are discriminated and described as new by 
Vigors. This catalogue would have been more useful had its 
author identified all the species on which Sir Stamford had 
previously bestowed new titles, and had the invalid titles been 
reduced to synonyms—a work, however, subsequently ac¬ 
complished in the most thorough manner by Mr. F. Moore J. 
Since 1830 no attempt at a complete account of the birds 
of Sumatra has been published ; but a good many species not 
contained in Vigors ; s list have been discovered and described, 
principally by the Dutch zoologists, more particularly by 
Temminck§ and by Salomon Muller ||. Mr. Wallace, during 
* The collection of birds was sent to the E.I. C. Museum in London 
in 1820, and of drawings in 1821. 
t Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Stamford Baffles, by 
his Widow (1830) ; Cat. Zool. Specimens, Jves, pp. 648, 687. 
f A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. E.I. Company, 
in two vols.: vol. i. (1854), vol. ii. (1856-58). 
§ Nouveau Becueil de Planches Coloriees d’Oiseaux, in five volumes. 
Date of completed work 1838. 
|| Tijdschrift voor Naturlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie, ii. pp. 315, 
354 (1835). Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der Ne- 
