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lection to the British Museum^ would be in a position to 

 continue his work of editing ' Stray Feathers ' ; but we 

 venture to hope that he will at least issue or permit to be 

 issued a fourth part and index to the last unfinished volume, 

 so that we may be able to bind it up. Thus brought to a 

 respectable termination, ' Stray Feathers ' must be regarded 

 as a most valuable contribution to our knowledge of the 

 Indian avifauna, and as a lasting credit to the energy of its 

 talented Editor. 



Obituary. Mr. A. E. Knox. — The British Ornithologists' 

 Union has lost another of its original members by the death 

 of Arthur Edward Knox, which occurred on the 23rd of 

 September last at Dale Park, near Arundel. Born in Dublin, 

 the 28th of December, 1808, the deceased gentleman was the 

 eldest son of the late Mr. John Knox of Castlerea, in the 

 county of Mayo (who died in 1861), the descendant of a 

 branch of the Scottish family of that name which had settled 

 in Ireland early in the seventeenth century *. Being the 

 heir of a large and, as it was then believed, a flourishing 

 property, our late fellow-member entered Brazenose College 

 in the University of Oxford, where he graduated M.A., and 

 obtained a commission in the Second Kegiment of Life- 

 Guards, from which he retired about the time of his marriage, 

 in 1835, with Lad}^ Jane Parsons, daughter of the second 

 Earl of Rosse, and therefore sister to the constructor of the 

 famous telescope. Mr. Knox soon after took up his abode 

 at Pagham, on the coast of Sussex, and there began that 

 course of observations on the birds of that county, the 

 results of which have appeared in his two best-known works. 

 A few years later he removed to New Grove near Petworth, 

 subsequently to St. Ann's Hill, Midlmrst, and, about 1860, 

 to Trotton House near Petersfield, which he occupied until 

 quite recently. For some time after leaving the army, the 

 expectations to which he had been born gradually dwindled, 



* See Dr. Charles Rogers's ' Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and 

 of the Family of Knox ' (pp. 33-40), printed for the Grampian Club in 

 1879. 



