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other side of Newton's cliaracter. He gives an interesting 

 and, we ma}' be sure, accurate history of his friend, and the 

 conchiding paragraph of this essay — an essay subsequently 

 expanded in the Introduction to the "^ Ootheca Wolleyana ' — 

 affords an insight into his trutli-loving and affectionate 

 nature. This was followed by two important papers in the 

 third volume, viz., '' Particulars of Mr. J. Wolley^s Discovery 

 of the Breeding of the Waxwing {Ampelis garrulus) " and 

 " Abstract of Mr. J. Wolley's Researches in Iceland respect- 

 ing the Garefowl or Great Auk {Alca impennis)." Thus we 

 perceive that he lost no time in doing justice to the labours 

 of his deceased friend, whilst he was also making valuable 

 contributions to ornithology. His last great paper in the 

 first series of ' The Ibis ' was on the " Irruption of Pallas's 

 Sandgrouse {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) in 1863." This, as 

 usual, he wished to defer until further information had been 

 obtained, but he was prevailed upon to write whilst the 

 subject was still fresh in the mind of the public. The paper 

 concludes with a strongly-worded protest against the inhos- 

 pitable treatment of these interesting Siberian migrants 

 in search of a new home. Some years afterwards (1888) 

 there was another irruption, especially into Scotland, and 

 Newton had the pleasure of receiving a newly-hatched chick 

 from the sand-hills of the Moray Firth, which he exhibited 

 at the ensuing meeting of the British Association, and which 

 was duly figured in ' The Ibis' (1890, pi. vii.). 



It may be mentioned here that there were two subjects in 

 ■which Newton was specially interested, and on which he 

 occasionally wrote in ' The Ibis.^ The first of these relates 

 to the Avifauna, existing and extinct, of the Mascareue 

 Islands. He managed, in conjunction with his brother 

 Edward, sometime Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius, to 

 procure a fine series of bones of the Dodo from that island, 

 and also of the Solitaire of Rodriguez (Pezophaps soUtarius). 

 He remarks that "a more wonderful structure than the 

 Dodo's skeleton it is not easy for an ornithologist to con- 

 ceive.'^ The second of the two subjects relates to the Great 

 Auk, which he may be said to have inherited from Wolley, 



