Obituary. 347 



seen Mr. Pycraft^s latest work on tlic group. The figures 

 have been to some extent re-drawn and re-arrauged. 



84. Sltarpe on a new Bird from Mount Roraima. 



[Report on a Oollection made by Messrs. F. V. McCouiiell and J. J. 

 Qiielcli at Mount Rovainia in British Guiana. (Communicated by 

 Professor E. Ray Laukester, D.C.L., F.R.S., Director of the Natural 

 History Museum.) Trans. Linn Soc. (Zool.) viii. ]»p. 51-76, 1900.] 



Only one bird, Zonotrichia macconelli, sp. uov., is men- 

 tioned in this memoir ; it is figured along with its near ally 

 Z, pileata. It would have been interesting to know what 

 other species Avere met wdth by Messrs. McConnell & Quelch 

 upon this remarkable mountain. 



XXVI.—Obiiuarij. 



Mr. C. W. WyatT; Dr. G. Hartlaub, The Baron M.-E. de 

 Selys-Longchamps, and Mr. P. Crowley. 



Claude Wilmott Wyatt, M.B.O.U,, who died on May 1st, 

 IDOOj at his residence, Adderbury, Oxon, was the only son 

 of the Rev, Thomas Wyatt, Vicar of Wroxton and Balscott, 

 in the same county. He was born at Worthing, Sussex, on 

 March 2, 1842, and was educated at Eton and Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxford. While at Eton he met with an accident, and 

 his injuries were so severe that he was on his back for several 

 months, and remained an invalid for three years afterwards. 

 This event had a great efiect on his life, for on going to the 

 University he found it impossible to do the necessary 

 reading, and was reluctantly compelled to give up taking a 

 degree. Being unable to do much head-work, he determincfl 

 to devote himself to the " hobby " of his boyhood, namely, 

 birds. First of all he visited Palestine and Egypt with 

 the Rev. H. T. Gepp as his companion. In 1869 Wyatt 

 joined the Sinai Survey Expedition as Ornithologist, at his 

 own expense, and on his return wrote a good article for this 

 Journal ou the birds of the Siuaitic peninsula (see ' Ibis,' 

 1870, p. 1). In the same connexion, Wyatt also prepared 

 the " Birds " of the Ordnance Survey of Sinai (1873). This 



