| Description | Contains notes, correspondence, photos, maps, etc. in preparation for The Birds of Mount Nimba, Liberia by P.R.Colston & K.Curry-Lindahl published by BM(NH) in 1986. This Report was based on a collection of bird skins, most of which were presented to the BM(NH) by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Skins were collected mainly by Alec D. Forbes-Watson and also by Dr Malcolm Coe and others.
Forbes-Watson had intended to follow up his field work by writing a full Report but when it became clear after some years that he would be unable to do this, the task was undertaken by Peter R. Colston of BM(NH) and Kai Curry-Lindahl assisted by Dr David W. Snow of BM(NH) and others. The tabulated data for this Report is recorded as being housed at Tring and is included. Alec Forbes-Watson's field data sheets are held at TRING MSS. FORBES-WATSON.
These papers include notes and reports by Alec Forbes-Watson (National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi), Peter R.Colston of BM(NH), Dr David W. Snow of BM(NH) and Prof Kai Curry-Lindahl (Sweden). There are letters from Prof Kai Curry-Lindahl (Nimba Research Laboratory, Liberia & Nairobi, Kenya & Sweden), Melvin A. Traylor (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago), Dr C. Hilary Fry (University of Aberdeen), Llewellyn G. Grimes (UK), Dr Malcolm Coe (University of Oxford) and R.E.Leakey (National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi).
In the files formerly with I.C.J. Galbraith and continued by Graham S. Cowles are letters from R.H. Carcasson at the National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya, Prof Kai Curry-Lindahl, Alec D. Forbes-Watson (Kenya), Don A. Turner (Kenya), Harvey Gilston (Switzerland), Dr C.M.Perrins (Department of Zoology, Oxford), Dr Malcolm Coe (Department of Zoology, Oxford), Robert J. Wolton (Oxford University), Dr I. Hanski (Oxford University), Stuart Keith (American Museum of Natural History), Warren B. King (I.C.B.P., USA), Christoph Imboden (I.C.B.P., Cambridge), Dr G.R.Cunningham van Someren (National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi). Reply letters from J.D.Macdonald, Ian C.J.Galbraith, Derek Goodwin, B.Pat Hall and David W.Snow, all of BM(NH) are included as well as internal BM(NH) memoranda.
Also present are 63 pages of photocopied typescript, being the draft of Checklist of the Birds of Liberia (Non-passeriformes) by A.D. Forbes-Watson which was never published.
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