750 Obituary, 



Geography, and a Coi respondent of the Institute of France 

 and of the Academy of Sciences. 



Of his works by far the most important to ornithologists 

 is the ' Birds of China/ undertaken in collaboration with 

 M. E. Oustalet ; but M. A. Milne-Edwards's ' Recherches 

 sur les Mammiferes^ related almost entirely to specimens 

 forwarded by Pere David, and other new species were 

 described in London and in Berlin. Sixty-three mammals 

 and sixty- five birds obtained by him have been declared to 

 be new to science. In 1889 he presented to the first 

 Reunion of the International Scientific Congress of Catholics 

 a memoir on the Chinese fauna. His reptiles, batrachians, 

 fishes, insects, and plants were described by various 

 authorities ; but it seems tliat birds were the Abbess chief 

 delight, and all readers of 'The Ibis^ may well join in 

 deploring the great loss that the world of science has 

 sustained. 



The following is a list of the titles of Pere David's 

 principal works and memoirs relating to Birds : — 



1. Note sur les Especes noiivelles d'Oiseaux recueillis par M. I'Abb^ 



Armand David dans les niDntagnes du Thibet Chinois. Nouv. 

 Arcliiv. du Mus. Paris, vi. (1870) Bull. pp. 33-40. 



2. [Description of Parus pekinensis.'] Ibis, 1870, p. 154. 



3. Nouvelle espece de Crossopfilou {C. ccerulescens) . C. R. Acad. Sci. 



Paris, Ixx. (1870) p. 538. 



4. On two new Species of Birds from Moupin, "Western Szechuen. 



Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vii. p. 250 (1871). 



5. Catalogue des Oiseaux de la Chine observes dans la parte septea- 



trionale de I'empire (au nord du Fleuve-bleu) de 1862 a 1870. 

 Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. Paris, vii. (1871) Bull. p. 3. 



6. Rapport adresse a MM. les Professeurs-Administrateurs du Mus6um 



d'Histoire Naturelle. Nouv. Arch, du Mus. Paris, vii. (1871) Bull, 

 p. 75. 



7. Journal d'un Voyage dans le Centre de la Chine et dans le Thibet 



oriental. Nouv. Archiv. du Mus. Paris, viii. (1872) Bulletin, pp. 3- 

 128 ; ix. (1873) pp. 15-48. 



8. Note sur quelques Oiseaux de la province de Chen-Si. Ann. Sci. Nat. 



(Zool.) xviii. (1873) No. 5. 



9. Sur quelques Oiseaux de Chine. Bull. Soc. Philoni. Paris, ser, 6, 



xii. p. 18 (1875). 



