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point out that this " emendation " of my spelling is incorrect. 

 The derivation of " Phalnopepla '\ as was given when the name 

 was made (P.Z. S. 1858, p. 453) , is ^aetvo'i, nitidus, andTreTrX.ov, 

 vestis. Now <^a€Lvo<i in Latin becomes '' Phainus," not 

 " Phcenus/' and Pha'inopepla is orthographically right. 

 '' Phainoptila" of Salvin (1877) is derived from the same 

 word. I hope no one will try to emend it. — P. L. S. 



Memoir of the Marquis of Tweeddale. 



No more severe loss has of late years fallen on the science to 

 which we are devoted than has happened to us by the sudden 

 and premature death of Lord Tweeddale^ Avhich took place 

 on the 29th December, 1878, Not only was Lord Tweed- 

 dale personally known to all the principal members of the 

 British Ornithologists^ Union, but he was also constantly 

 engaged in actual ornithological work, and always most ready 

 to supply information and advice to those who consulted him 

 on his favourite subject. Lord Tweeddale' had also shown 

 his purpose to devote part of the wealth which he had recently 

 inherited to the promotion of science ; so that, in every way, 

 there is scarcely one amongst us whose removal from his 

 sphere of influence could have been more generally felt by 

 all ornithologists. 



Arthur Hay, 9th Marquis of Tweeddale, F.R.S., and Pre- 

 sident of the Zoological Society of London, was bom on the 

 9th November, 1824, the second son of his father, the pre- 

 vious Marquis, who was a Field-Marshal, and a well-known 

 Peninsular veteran. In April 1841 Lord Arthui- Hay, as he 

 was then called, obtained a commission in the Grenadier 

 Guards, and on attaining the rank of captain in 1842, pro- 

 ceetled to India as A.D.C. to his father, who was at that time 

 Commander-in-Chief at Madras. It was at this period of 

 his life that Lord Arthur Hay made the acquaintance of the 

 late Dr. Jerdon, the distinguished Indian naturalist, who was 

 then assistant-surgeon at Fort St. George. The two saw 

 much of each other, and worked together at various branches 



