CHINESE BIRDS ADDED TO ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION

Two large collections of birds, one from China and the other from South America, have been added to the ornithological collections of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard through the, generous, interest of a number of alumni of the University.

The first and larger of these, a collection of 8000 specimens from eastern and southern China, is the work of J. D. LaTouche, formerly a member of the Chinese Postal Service, and is the result of over forty years of work. During this time, LaTouche was stationed at a number of different posts, and with the assistance of his Chinese, whom he had trained especially in the preparation of specimens, amassed this collection, which is not equalled by any collection of Chinese birds either here or abroad. It forms the basis for his handbook of birds of eastern China; of which five parts have now appeared.