350 Ofntaary. 



not form a part of the scientific name of any species, but, 

 when added, is merely for convenience of reference. 



(2) That in the case of the names of all well-known species 

 the ''authority^' is quite unnecessary and may be altogether 

 omitted. 



XV. — Obituary. 

 Mr. W. H. HuDLEsroN. 

 It is but three months since the four surviving Original 

 Members still on the List of the B.O.U. were presented with 

 Commemorative Medals, and. already one has passed from our 

 midst, for we have now to announce, with the greatest 

 regret, the death of Mr. W. H. Hudleston. The following 

 paragraphs are extracted from the full " Life " which he 

 himself wrote last year for the Jubilee Supplement : — 



Previous to April 18G7 Hudleston was known as Wilfrid 

 Hudleston Simpson, and it w^as whilst bearing this name 

 that most of his ornithological work was done. He was 

 born at York on the 2nd June, 1828, and spent the years 

 from 1838 to 1843 at the Collegiate School in that city, now 

 St. Peter's School. Those were the days before scientific 

 farming had reduced our fences, and there was a fine field 

 for the bird's-nester. 



In 1843 young Simpson went to Uppingham School, being 

 then 15 years of age. Here, for three successive seasons, 

 he indulged in his favourite pursuit in a locality which at 

 that time was certainly favourable to ornithological rambles. 

 Kites had only just disappeared from those large woods 

 which were remnants of the old forest of Rockingham, but 

 some of the local eggs were still preserved in Bell's 

 collection. 



The scene now shifts to Cambridge, when the glories of 

 Fenland were already in a transition state. The seasons of 

 1847, 1848, and 1849 are those with which we have to 

 deal. Simpson spent no small part of his time during the 

 spring months in fen localities, and the area of his operations 

 extended from Whittlesey Mere, on the west, to the fens of 



