348 ObiUiary. 



expedition t'urtlier encouraged Wyatt's taste for travel, and 

 for the next ten years he was generally abroad, visiting 

 Africa, North and South America, India, and other parts of 

 Asia, always on the look-out for birds. One of the most 

 useful excursions he made during this period was his journey 

 to the U.S. of Colombia in 1870, when he penetrated far 

 into the Eastern Cordillera of the State of Sautander, and 

 obtained a good series of specimens, of which an account was 

 published in 'The Ibis' for 1871. In 1882 Wyatt finally 

 settled down at Adderbury, and thenceforth devoted all his 

 time to painting and drawing the birds he loved so well. 



Wyatt was a very shy, reserved, and silent man. Few^ of 

 his casual friends would have known from him of the wild 

 places he had been in, or even that he had been out of 

 England at all, but once on the subject of birds he was 

 always ready to talk. During the last twelve years of his 

 life he again felt the effects of his accident, and was more or 

 less of an invalid, but up to tiie very last he always spent 

 his mornings in drawing and painting. 



His house at Adderbury was filled with cases of beautiful 

 birds all shot and set up by himself. He also left a large 

 and valuable collection of their skins, which his sister, Mrs. 

 Bradford, has presented to the Oxford University Museum. 



Wyatt's best known ornithological works are the 'Mono- 

 graph of the Swallows,' a fully illustrated quarto, in two 

 volumes, which was prepared by him in association with 

 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, and his ' British Birds,' also in two 

 volumes. In both of these books the drawings, which were 

 made entirely by his own hands, show artistic skill of a very 

 high order."^ 



In Dr. GusTAV Hartlaub the science of Ornithology 

 has lost one of its oldest and most active votaries, who had 

 been engaged in zoological work, mainly relating to Birds, 

 for nearly sixty years. 



Hartlaub was born at Bremen on the 8th of November, 1814, 

 being the son of Senator Hartlaub, a well-known merchant 

 * See Ibis, 1894, p. 447, aud 1000, p. o61. 



