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ever be grateful to liini. This was an index to Azara's 

 ' Apuntamientos^ on the birds of Paraguay, whicli was pre- 

 pared nitli great care and sagacity. But it was more 

 specially to the Avifauna of the Ethiopian region that 

 Hartlaub turned his attention. His ' System der Orni- 

 thologie West-Africans/ although issued so long ago as 

 1857, still remains the standard work of reference on this 

 subject, and his two volumes on the Birds of Madagascar 

 (1861 and 1877) were, until recently, the leading authorities 

 on the strange Avifauna of that country. 



In 1870 Hartlaub, in conjunction with Dr. Finsch, pub- 

 lished an excellent volume on East-African Birds, based 

 primarily on the collection made by the unfortunate traveller 

 Baron v. der Decken during his expedition up the Juba 

 River. 



Besides these separate works, Hartlaub published, from 

 1852 onwards, a multitude of essays on ornithological subjects 

 in various journals in Germany, especially in the ' Abhand- 

 lungen der naturwissenschaftlichen A^ereins zu Bremen ' and 

 in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie.' 



Hartlaub, who had the reputation among his countrymen 

 of being somewhat of an "^ Anglo-maniac/^ also made frequent 

 communications to the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society ' and ' The Ibis.' Of the Zoological Society he was, 

 at the time of his death, the Senior Foreign Member, having 

 been elected to that honour in 1855. Of the British Orni- 

 thologists' Union he was one of the Honorary Members 

 originally selected iti 1860, while he was a contributor to 

 the very first volume of this Journal. His name is com- 

 memorated in Ornithology by the peculiar genus of Starlings 

 [Hartlaubius) called after him by Bonaparte in 1853, and by 

 many species [Onychognathus hartlaubi, Lophoceros hart- 

 laubi, Turacus hartlaubi, FrancoHnus hartlaubi, &c.), the 

 names of which will carry down to posterity the fame of the 

 celebrated Ornithologist of Bremen. 



Hartlaub died at his residence in Bremen on the 20th of 

 November last, in the 86th year of his age, having lived to 

 celebrate his Golden Wedding and the Jubilseum of his 



