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enabling him in 1881 to contribute to ' The Field ' a series 

 of articles entitled " Across the Andes.'^ The revolutionary- 

 spirit of many towns in South America at that epoch con- 

 stituted a very serious danger, in addition to the usual risks 

 of a wild and little-kuoAvn country, but Saunders's courage 

 was by no means the least characteristic of his qualities. 



In 1862 he returned to England, but only to devote most 

 of his time until 1868 to the investigation o£ the Avifauna 

 of Spain, a subject on Avhich he soon became our recognised 

 authority. Articles from his pen referring to this part of 

 his career will be found in 'The Ibis ' for 1869, 1871, 1872, 

 and 1878 ; while he wrote in a more popular style for 

 ' The Field ' in 1874 his " Ornithological Rambles in Spain 

 and Majorca." In 1868 he married Emily, daughter of 

 Mr. William Minshull Bigg, of Stratford Place, and took 

 up his residence in England ; but he still found time to 

 continue his continental expeditions, the results of which 

 are incorporated in papers to ' The Ibis ' on the birds of the 

 Pyrenees in 1883-4 and those of Switzerland in 1891, while 

 in 1893 these were followed by an account of " The Distri- 

 bution of Birds in France.^' 



Saunders was an active Member of the Zoological, Liunean, 

 and Royal Geographical Societies, and Avas in much request 

 as a member of committees and councils ; he was a Vice- 

 President of the first-named and in close touch with the 

 Gardens at llegent^s Park, where he took a strong interest 

 in the animals and their management. He was elected a 

 Member of the British Ornithologists^ Union in 1870, and 

 in 1901 entered upon the office of Secretary, a post which 

 he held till his death. He was also the first Secretary and 

 Treasurer of the British Ornithologists' Club, when that 

 oifshoot from the parent stem was founded in 1892. The 

 fifth and seventh series of ' The Ibis ' Avere issued under his 

 editorship, conjointly Avith Sclater; Avhile from 1877 to 1881 

 he acted as the Recorder of '' Aves " for the ' Zoological 

 Record,' and from 1880 to 1885 as Secretary of Section D 

 (Zoology) at the meetings of the British Association. In 

 1884 he edited Aleillot's 'Analyse' for the Willughby 



