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they are known to the writer) which coucludes this notice. 

 On the death of his uncle the Marquis of Tweeddale, 

 who was for many years the distinguished President 

 of the Zoological Society, Wardlaw- Ramsay inherited 

 the vast collection of birds formed by that nobleman. 

 This the inheritor generously presented to the British 

 Museum (Natural History), on condition that a set of 

 duplicate specimens was to be sent to the Edinburgh 

 Museum. He also handed over the very valuable ornitho- 

 logical librar}', which came to him with the collections, to 

 the Museum, on condition it was placed in the bird-room for 

 the use of the officers and students working there. It is 

 now known as the Tweeddale library. In 1881 he edited 

 and revised a memorial volume entitled ' The Ornithological 

 Works of Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale/ a quarto of 

 760 pages. For several years past Colonel Wardlaw-Ramsay 

 had been engaged upon the preparation of a concise handy 

 volume — an ornithological Baedeker — on the species and 

 races of the Birds of Europe and northern Africa for the 

 use of travellers and others. Though this book was nearing 

 completion, yet a considerable amount of work remained to 

 be done ere it was ready for the press, and shortly before he 

 passed away he requested that the manuscript should 

 be handed unconditionally to the writer of this notice, who 

 hopes to arrange for its completion and publication in due 

 course. 



List of Papers. 



Description of a new species of Woodpecker {Gecinus erythropygius) 



from British Burmab. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874. pp. 212-213. 

 Ornithological Notes from the district of Karen-nee, Burmab. Ibis, 1875, 



pp. 34;8-C)53. 

 On an undescribed species of Nuthatch {Sitta magna) and another bird 



(Orocetes crythrogaster) from Karen-nee. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, 



p. 677. 

 Notes on some Burmese Birds. Ibis, 1877, pp. 452-473. 

 A Synopsis of the genus Pomatorhinus. Ibis, 1878, pp. 129-145. 

 Description of a new Oriole from Borneo {Oriolus co7isobn'}iirs), Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 709. 



