WCP1734

[1]¹

Pen-y-bryn, St. Peter’s Road

Croydon

Sept^r. 17th. 1880

Dear Sclater²

I send on other side a statement of the number of my Amazon Bird-skins.

They include the whole of the of the lot you had to name ^catalogue, except about a dozen of the showey chatterers &c. all common species. Almost all have localities, & your names.

There seems to be one Goatsucker, which I have got named Nyctidromus Derbyanus, from Mexiana, not included in your list. There are 2 specimens of it.

[2] As there are very few duplicates there are probably 250 species or more.

I have also a good lot perhaps 500 or 600 skins of Eastern Birds, consisting of duplicates of my own collection, and a set of South Australian Birds, with some Indian, Chineese & European, obtained by exchange — almost all named and with localities. I sh^d be glad to show these to any one who wants ^such a lot.

Yours faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace. [signature]

P. L. Sclater Esq.

Amazon Bird-Skins Turididae to Vireonidae.. Caerebidae & Tanagridae — Tringillidae — Icteridae — Dendrocolaptidae — Formicariidae — Tyrannidae — Cotuigidae — Monotidae — Trogonidae — Galbulidae — Campimulgidae — Bucconidae — Trochilidae — Ramphastidae — Psittaci — Cuculidae — Aloedinidae — Picidae — Columbae — Opisthocomus — Waders & Surinners	Specimens 21 30 18 10 12 30 22 20 1 10 12 6 13 24 9 16 6 11 10 9 1 20
Total	311