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richer in species than any other collection from those countries and in grand series, 

 was one never to be forgotten by a naturalist. The number of novelties is astonishing, 

 and the new Geometridae, Thyrididae and Vraniidae have been described by Mr. 

 W. Warren in Nocitates Zoologicae, 1904 and 1905, while Mr. Rothschild named 

 a new Hawk-moth, Xylophanes ockendeni, in his honour. 



In addition to lepidoptera Ockenden also collected successfully birds, mammals 

 and reptiles. Mr. Boalenger has described from his collections six new batrachians, 

 two lizards, and two snakes, and the female of the rare and curious frog Ceratohyla 

 bubalus, which carries its egg on the back. The nursing habits of this species 

 were not formerly known. Many valuable birdskins collected by Ockenden have 

 enriched the series in the Tring Museum. Mr. C. E. Hellmayr has described 

 already two novelties from his collections — viz. Dysithamuus aroyae and Turdus 

 fuscata ockendeni. 



During his last trip, marching eastwards from Tirapata, he was attacked by 

 typhoid fever. For several days he continued his journey by easy stages, but 

 at last he became so seriously ill that further progress was impossible. He and 

 his wife were in a serious plight, in a solitary empty house, almost without the 

 necessities of life, the luggage having gone in advance. Fortunately Mr. and 

 Mrs. Brown, of the Inca Mining Company, hearing of Ockenden's position, kindly 

 sent a vehicle and had them brought back to their house at Tirapata. Here 

 everything in their power was done, but Ockenden's state became rapidly worse. 

 As there were no doctors and no proper medicines at Tirapata, a special train 

 was chartered to take the patient to the Puno Hospital. Neither the doctors 

 nor the devoted nursing of his wife, however, could save him, and on March 25th, 

 1906, he passed away. 



