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THE great collection of birds formed by the late Marquess of Tweeddale has now safely arrived in London, and has been deposited in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. It is sufficient to say that it equals in extent the valuable donation of American birds presented by Mr. Osbert Salvin and Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, numbering about 27,000 specimens; and though inferior in number of individual skins to the great Hume collection, which reached the phenomenal number of 63,000 specimens, it is not inferior in interest to either of these wonderful collections. Mr. Hume thoroughly worked the territory of the British Asian Empire from Scinde to Assam and Manipur, from Khatmandu to Ceylon, and from Tenasserim to Singapore; but to the eastward of these countries the work had been continued by other naturalists, and the results of their labours are largely represented in the Tweeddale collection, which now forms part of the British Museum.
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SHARPE, R. The Tweeddale Collection . Nature 37, 13–14 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037013a0
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