432 Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Miclialasld. 



in the British Museum, whilst others were presented to his 

 ornithological friends, particularly to Mr. John Gould and the 

 late Mr. G. R. Gray*. The 'Enterprise^ reached England in 

 May 1855 ; but during her stay in China on her way home, the 

 hot climate greatly affected Mr. Adams, and a severe attack 

 of inflammation of the lungs nearly cost him his life. After 

 two months' entire rest he next prepared himself to pass 

 his examination as full Surgeon, and being duly gazetted to 

 that rank, was appointed to the steam-sloop * Hecla,' and 

 joined that vessel at Devonport in November 1855. In May 

 1856 she was ordered to the west coast of Afiica ; and though 

 with a presentiment in his own mind that his health would 

 not stand the climate, Mr. Adams did not shrink from his 

 duty. His feai*s, how^ever, were but too well grounded. 

 Scarcely a month after the ' Hecla's ' arrival at Sierra Leone 

 he was compelled to be invalided on shore whilst the ship 

 made a cruise of three weeks ; but on her return to that port 

 he was found so much worse that he was again conveyed on 

 board, with a view to his immediate return to England. 

 This, however, was not to be ! Only a day or two later an 

 attack of typhus proved rapidly fatal in his already emaciated 

 condition ; and the remains of this able medical officer and 

 accomplished naturalist were interred in the cemetery at 

 Sierra Leone, with military honours, the Governor and the 

 whole garrison attending." — Edd.] 



Blue-throated Warbler. Cyanecula suecica (Linn.). 



Soo-kuk, Eski. 



On the 5th of June I met with seven of these birds near 

 the redoubt, feeding about some willow-bushes. They were 

 very wild, and it was with some difficulty that I procured a 

 specimen. 



I could not find them afterwards ; and the natives were evi- 

 dently not well acquainted with them. 



[We have not been able to trace Dr. Adams's specimen, 

 which is greatly to be regretted, as no other instance of a 

 bird of this genus having been found on the American con- 

 tinent is on record.] 



[* Mr. Gray dedicated Colymhus adamsi (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 167, to tlie 

 commemoration of Mr. Adams's labours in ornithology. — Edd.] 



