BANGS TO ANNOUNCE VALUE OF ROCK'S TIBETAN BIRDS

The collection of over 1000 birds sent from Western China to the Agassiz Museum by Dr. J. F. Rock last summer, is being classified at the Museum, and preliminary announcement of its extent and value will be made within a week, it has been announced to the CRIMSON by Dr. Outram Bangs '84, ornithologist and Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

The birds were not collected by Dr. Rock himself, but by a skilled native bird hunter who accompanied him in his botanical explorations of the region around Tibet from 1924 to 1927 for the Arnold Arboretum. The collection includes birds ranging all the way from humming-birds to bearded eagles with a wing spread of ten feet. The region from which these birds have been sent is largely unexplored by Europeans, as the fierce native tribes repel all intrusions of foreigners, and Dr. Rock succeeded only because of his long experienced with the Tibetan tribes.