WCP4221

Letter (WCP4221.4286)

[1]

Parkstone, Dorset

March 5th 1891

My dear Mr Cockerell

I sent you a Post-Card yesterday asking for the number of sp[ecies]. of Bornean birds.

I now find I want a few more facts. Will you be so good as to see by referring to the B[ritish]. Mus[eum]. Cat[atlogue]. of Birds, whether the genera I give at p.358 (Island Life) as peculiar to Java and India, but not found in Sumatra or Borneo, are also still so restricted. Perhaps too, the generic names are altered.

I think this is all I want for this Chapter.

Yours very truly | Alfred R Wallace [signature]

over1

[2] P.S.

I give

Zoothera2

Notodela Java and Indo. China3

Crypsirhina

Brachypteryx — Sumatra4

Allotrius Java & Himalayas5

Cochoa

?6 Psaltria — not Himal[ayas]7

but not in Sumatra or Borneo

Also 2 species

Harpactes oreskios Java & Indo. China8

Pavo muticus

1
"over" is written in the bottom left corner margin of the first page.
2
The following lists give the name genera of birds and the locations they inhabit.
3
All three bullet points are linked to the text "Java and Indo. China"
4
Text added after the letter was written.
5
All four bullet points are linked to the text "Java & Himalayas"
6
"?" written in the left hand margin of the second page.
7
Text added after the letter was written.
8
Both bullet points are linked to the text "Java & Indo. China"

Editorial information

Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP4221.4286)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Sloyan, Victoria [2012-09-17] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP4221,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP4221