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10. Journal de uioii troisienie Voyage d'exploration dans I'Empire 



Chinois. 2 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1875. 



11. Les Oiseaux de la Chiue. Par I'Abbe Armaud David et E. Oiistalet. 



Text & Atlas. Svo. Paris, 1877. 



With deep regret we have to record the death at Suva, 

 the capital of the Fiji Islands, on the 7tli of June last, of 

 Mr. Lionel William Wiglesworth, author of the 'Aves 

 Polynesise' (1891) and (jointly with Dr. A. B. Meyer) of 'The 

 Birds of Celebes' (1898). Born on the 13th of February, 

 1865, being the second son of the late Rev. James L. Wigles- 

 worth, Curate of Hanslope-with-Castlethorpe in the county of 

 Buckingham, the deceased naturalist was educated at Trinity 

 School, Old Stratford, and from early years was an ardent 

 observer of birds and a keen collector of their eggs, while the 

 constant reading of Waterton's 'Wanderings' filled him with 

 a much greater desire to know more of foreign ornithology 

 than is commonly possessed by the ordinary birds'-nesting boy. 

 After the death of his father, in 1882, his inclinations were 

 fostered by an uncle and aunt, and resolving to make a 

 serious study of Ornithology, he repaired in 1889 to Bruns- 

 wick, armed with an introduction to Professor Wilhelm 

 Blasius, and placed himself under him as a teacher. There 

 he remained working industriously for two years, and then 

 proceeded to Dresden as a volunteer assistant to Dr. A. B. 

 Meyer in the Museum of the Capital. It had long been 

 Mr. Wiglesworth's great aim to carry on ornithological inves- 

 tigations in some distant country, and it was a bitter disap- 

 pointment to him that the offer of his services, for an almost 

 nominal remuneration, was not accepted by the Committee 

 for the Zoological Exploration of the Sandwich Islands, at 

 the beginning of its operations. The opportunity of going 

 abroad, to which he had been so long looking forward, did 

 not occur till nearly a twelvemonth ago, and in November 

 1900 he left England for Australia and New Zealand, with 

 the intention of making his way from the latter of those 

 countries to as many of the chief groups of islands in the 

 Pacific as he could, and of working them on his own account. 



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