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canic districts east of Damascus, and to the highlands of Syria. 

 The materials gathered were published in ' Unexplored Syria/ 

 the joint production of Captain Burton and himself. From 

 this time he devoted his energies to the service of the Pales- 

 tine-Exploration Society, until, worn with overwork and ex- 

 posure to a trying climate, he was seized at Jerusalem with 

 an attack of typhoid fever, which proved fatal on the 23rd of 

 June last, 



Ferdinand Stoliczka, who died on the 19th June, 187i<, 

 at Shayak, between the Karakorum Pass and Leh, in Ladak, 

 was in his thirty-sixth year. Though not an ornithologist 

 in any special sense, he was evidently possessed of more than 

 a superficial knowledge of the birds of the country which was 

 the scene of his labours. As palaeontologist to the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of India, he seems to have availed himself of 

 every opportunity of increasing our acquaintance with living 

 zoology, thereby adding to the completeness of his own know- 

 ledge of his speciality, paloeontology. Though Dr. Stoliczka 

 did not contribute to this Journal, a paper of his upon the 

 birds of Province Wellesley (J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 277) formed 

 the subject of an article by Lord Walden, which appeared in 

 'The Ibis' for 1871, p. 158. Collections of birds made by 

 Stoliczka in the Himalayas and Thibet were described in 

 a paper by our Honorary Member, Herr A. von Pelzeln, which 

 was published in the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie ' for 1868, 

 and was translated by Lord Walden into this Journal in the 

 volume for the same year (Ibis, 1868, p. 302). 



Stoliczka also contributed papers on ornithology to the 

 Journal of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna"^, 

 and to the 'Journal of the Asiatic Society of BengaP — the most 

 valuable containing his notes on the birds of the Sutlij Val- 

 ley, and his notice of the mammals and birds inhabiting 

 Kachh. He was also a contributor to ' Stray Feathers.' 



For five years he held the position of Honorary Secretary to 

 the Asiatic Society, and was thus enabled to improve mate- 

 rially the natural-history [)ortion of the Society's ' Journal.' 

 * Yerh. k.-k. zool.-but. Ciesellscli. Wieii, 18G0, p. 848. 



