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XXIX. — Obituary. 



Lord Brabourne. 



"We regret to have to record the death of Lord Brabourne, 

 who had of late years interested himself so much in the 

 study of Neotropical birds. 



Wyndham Wentworth KnatchbiiU-Hugessen, third Baron 

 Brabourne, was born September 21, 1885, and was the only 

 son of the second Baron and Amy Virginia, daughter of the 

 first Baron Allendale. His grandfather, the first Lord 

 Brabourne, was a well-known politician in the Victorian 

 era, and was raised to the peerage by Lord Beaconsfield. 



Lord Brabourne succeeded to the title on the death of his 

 father in 1909, and entered the Grenadier Guards in tlie 

 following year, passing into the Special Reserve in 1911. 

 Soon after the outbreak of the war he rejoined his regiment, 

 and met his death at Neuve Chapelle on March 12 last. 



During his early life, before his father's death. Lord 

 Brabourne spent some years in Paraguay, where he amassed 

 a considerable collection of birds, which he presented to the 

 British Museum on his return in 1908. In 1910 he was 

 elected a Member of the Union, and in the same year he 

 induced Mr. Chubb to join him in the planning and 

 organization of a general work on the Birds of South 

 America. A " List/^ which was to form Vol. I. of the 

 Series, was completed and published in December 1912 

 (see ' Ibis.' 1913, p. 315). 



In July 1912 Lord Brabourne again left England for 

 South America, where he remained in Peru collecting 

 material for his great undertaking. On the outbreak of 

 the war in August last, he hurried home to rejoin his 

 regiment. 



In addition to the " List " already mentioned. Lord 

 Brabourne was the author, conjointly with Mr. Chubb, of 

 the following papers : — 



The Nomenclature of the Rheas of South America. Ann, & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. (8) viii. 1911, pp. 273-275. 



