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the kick of a vicious horse. This would have tinished off 

 most men at the age of seventy-five. But such "was not 

 the ease with our friend Tristram. After a few weeks in 

 Jerusalem he was pronounced to be sound again, and 

 returned to England as full of energy and spirits as ever. 



In all these journeyings, however^ it must not be supposed 

 that Tristram ever lost sight of his " dear birds." They 

 were continually in his mind, and he was always collecting 

 specimens and writing notes about them. In the pages of 

 this Journal and elsewhere will be found upwards of seventy 

 papers of more or less importance relating to his favourite 

 subject. So far as regards Palestine^ these notes will be 

 found summarized and placed in systematic order in his 

 great Avork on the ' Fauna and Flora of Palestine,' published 

 by the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1884. This lasting 

 monument of Canon Tristram^s industry and learning is 

 still the only published work dealing with the Nattiral 

 History of the Bible-lands as a whole, and is likely long- 

 to remain so. A smaller and more popular work of 

 Tristram's on the Natural History of Palestine, together with 

 an account of its Geography, Geology, and Meteorology, 

 was published by the Society for Promoting Christian 

 Knowledge in 1867, and has gone through several editions. 



But Tristram by no means confined his ornithological 

 labours to one or two spots on the globe. He visited 

 Norway, and was also indefatigable in amassing specimens 

 from all quarters, while he was specially interested in 

 obtaining them from remote oceanic islands and similar 

 strange places. In 1889 he had got together over 17,000 

 specimens, and prepared and printed a catalogue of them. 

 Many of them were of great rarity (e. g., Nestor 'productus, 

 Camptolamus labradorivs, Monarcha dhnidiata) and almost 

 unknown elsewhere. Some years afterwards, fearing that 

 on his death his famous collection might be dispersed, he 

 came to an arrangement with the authorities of the Free 

 Public Museums of Liverpool to take over the whole of his 

 series of birds. In the lleport of the Committee of this 

 Institution for 189G will be found a short account of this 



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