523 Obituary. 



Dresser (B. Eur. pt. viii.), this species has appeared as far to 

 the northward as Rocroy and Osnabriick ; but that a bird of 

 its habits should ever cross " the silver streak " could hardly 

 have been expected, though, as is well known, Accentor col- 

 laris has several times favoured England with a visit, and 

 perhaps other distinguished members of the Alpine Club may 

 have come and gone unseen. It must be a satisfaction, we 

 think, to Prof. Newton, that he has done with the Certhiidse 

 in his revised edition of Yarrell's work, and therefore will 

 not have to take into consideration the claims of the Wall- 

 creeper to be accounted a " British " bird ; but in our humble 

 opinion eighty years and more of non-user ought to bar any 

 rights an exotic species may fancy itself to possess ; and if 

 they are to be enforced in this case, the sooner Tichodroma 

 puts in an appearance, the better its chances of recognition^. 

 Another interesting fact which these letters mention is that 

 White was employed on a monograph of Caprimulgus euro- 

 pcBus, as a sequel to those charming dissertations on British 

 species of Hirundo and Cypselus which were printed in the 

 ' Philosophical Transactions.^ Whether this monograph was 

 ever completed we may expect to hear from Prof. Bell, when 

 he brings out, as we are assured he shortly will, his long- 

 looked-for edition of the ' Natural History of Selborne." 



XLIX. — Obituary. 



Sir William Jardine, whose death took place on the 21st 

 Nov. of last year, belonged to a generation of ornithologists 

 of whem but few now remain. When we consider that much 

 of his work was done before the Zoological Society was or- 

 ganized, and before the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural 



* It is worthy of remark that Willughby states of this species, '' They 

 say it is found in England ; but we have not as yet had the hap to meet 

 with it." Who the " (Aey " are is doubtful, Merrett being apparently the 

 only author who includes it as British (Pinax, 1667, p. 177), and this 

 without remark. 



