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his accession, beiug the first Eugiishman to enter Antana- 

 narivo for many years. The ornithological results of this 

 expedition Avere recorded in ' The Ibis ' for 1862, pp. 94 & 

 265. In the autumn of the following year (1863) he paid 

 a second visit to Madagascar, not officially, but solely for 

 the purpose of ornithology, of which the history will be 

 found in ' The Ibis/ 1863, pp. 333 et seqq., 452 et seqq. 

 In Nov. 1864 he made an expedition to Rodriguez, which 

 yielded rich results, as recorded by him in '^The Ibis^ (1865, 

 p. 146), "Reports" of the British Association (1865, p. 92), 

 and 'Philosophical Transactions^ (Transit volume, 1869). 

 In the spring of 1867 he visited the Seychelles, where he 

 discovered a number of new and unsuspected species, which 

 he described in P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 344, 821, and 'The Ibis,'' 

 1867, pp. S35 et seqq. Though he never had an opportunity 

 of visiting Anjuan or any of the Comoros, yet he contributed 

 largely to our knowledge of their avifaunas by inducing 

 Mr. Bewsher to visit them and collect. His notes on them 

 will be found in P. Z. S. 1877, p. 295. 



To summarize his work, while officially resident in jNIauri- 

 tius, not fewer than 27 new species of living birds were 

 brought to our knowledge by him from the Mascarene 

 Islands, Madagascar, and the Comoros; but he Avas wholly 

 indifferent as to who described them, so long as this was 

 properly done. No less than 10 of these were from the 

 Seychelles. Fifteen of his discoveries were named by his 

 brother, by Dr. Hartlaub, and others. In his Presidential 

 Address to the Norfolk Naturalists' Society (1888J, Sir 

 Edward gave an admirable popular summary of the avifauna 

 of the Mascareues, with picturesque descriptions of extinct 

 species, so far as they can be ascertained, and vivid sketches of 

 the physical character of the islands. The address is replete 

 with warnings that like causes are bringing about, though 

 in a slower degree, like results in our own island, and he 

 points out how the danger may possibly be averted. It is 

 much to be regretted that this address has not been repub- 

 lished in some more permanent form. 



In Jamaica his official duties were incessant and harassing. 



