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Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1906. 3. Birds, pp. 79-515. In [Lankester, E.R., ed.]. The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. 2. Separate historical accounts of the several collections included in the Department of Zoology. [i-iii], [1]-782. London.
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14 birds from Siam and Cambodia, collected by M. Mouhot, and containing the type of Garrulax mouhoti, Sharpe, Cat. B., vii., p. 444 (1883). Purchased. [60. 7. 2, 3 16.] 79 birds from Timor, E. Gilolo, Ternate, collected by Dr. A. R. Wallace. Purchased. [60. 9. 5, 1 79.] The following species were new to the collection: Oreicola melanoleuca, Megaloprepia formosa, Eulipoa wallacei, Aprosmictus hypophonius, Pitta maxima, Rhipidura rufiventris, Philemon timoriensis. 46 birds from Celebes
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Wallace, A. R. 1908. My life: A record of events and opinions. New edition, condensed and revised. London: Chapman & Hall.
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now continue the account of my travels. During the first months of my residence at Ternate I made two visits to different parts of the large island of Gilolo, where my hunters obtained a number of very fine birds, but owing to the absence of good virgin forest and my own ill-health, I obtained very few insects. At length, on March 25, I obtained a passage to Dorey Harbour, on the north coast of New Guinea, in a trading schooner, which left me there, and called for me three or four months later to
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Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.
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Ternate. January 25, 1858. I have not done much here yet, having been much occupied in getting a house repaired and put in order. This island is a volcano with a sloping spur on which the town is situated. About ten miles to the east is the coast of the large Island of Gilolo, perhaps the most perfect entomological terra in cognita now to be found. I am not aware that a single insect has ever been collected there, and cannot find it given as the locality of any insects in my catalogues or
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Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.
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TO HIS MOTHER October 6, 1858. My dear Mother, . . . I have just returned from a short trip, and am now about to start on a longer one, but to a place where there are some soldiers, a doctor and engineer who speak English, so if it is good for collecting I shall stay there some months. It is Batchian, an island on the south-west side of Gilolo, about three or four days' sail from Ternate. I am now quite recovered from my New Guinea voyage and am in good health. I have received letters from Mr
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