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Gui'iiey's earliest published communication seems to have 

 been a note in the ' Annals and JMagazine of Natural History ' 

 for March 1842 (vol. ix. p. 19j, and it ^vas followed by 

 another in the same journal for June {tout. cit. p. 353), the 

 subject of both being ornithological occurrences in his own 

 county. In the next year ' The Zoologist ^ was established, 

 and to this he became a frequent contributor^ publishing in 

 the volume for 1846, with the aid of Mr. W. R. Fisher, 

 *' An Account of Birds found in Norfolk/^ a very careful 

 piece of work, and for a good while the most ambitious that 

 he attempted, thougli he was constantly communicating 

 short notes to that periodical, and did so for the rest of his 

 life. When the scheme for founding ' The Ibis ' was pro- 

 posed, he entered warmly into it. He meant to attend the 

 meeting held at Cambridge in the autumn of 1858, when 

 the preliminaries were definitely arranged, but was prevented, 

 almost at the last moment, from carrying out his intention 

 of being present. His advice, however, was acted upon none 

 the less, and was of great service to the other founders. He 

 helped to mould into a practicable form various proposals then 

 made, and liberally promised to defray the cost of a plate 

 for each number of the new Journal, in addition to the two 

 plates for which allowance was made in the original estimate. 

 This charge he continued to bear for the whole of the tirst 

 series of ' The Ibis,' only stipulating that the subject of each 

 plate that he presented should be a ^' Bird of Prey,^^ — for 

 he had already made great progress in forming the now vast 

 and celebrated collection of '^Raptores" in the Norwich 

 Museum, to which institution he had been a donor in 1828, 

 when he was but nine years of age. But he was by no 

 means exclusively devoted to this group of birds. He 

 bought a large portion of the ornithological collection 

 formed by Mr. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, and pre- 

 sented it to the Museum at King^s Lynn (for which borough 

 he sat as representative in the House of Commons from 

 1854 to 1865), while about the same time circumstances 

 led him to take especial interest in the ornithology of South 

 Africa, as is shown by his numerous papers in our pages on 



