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Among liis more important publications may be men- 

 tioned : — 



Conspectus systematicus et geographicus Avium Euro- 



psearum. 1871. 

 Le Faune illustree des Vertebres de la Belgique. Ser. ii. 



les Oiseaux. 4 vols., with 427 coloured plates. 



1876-1894. 

 Synopsis Avium : nouveau manuel d'Ornitliologie. 



2 vols., 16 col. pis. Brussels, 1899-1904. 8vo. 

 Les animaux nuisable de la Belgique (vertebi'es). 1 vol., 



illustrated. Brussels, 1903. 

 Revue des dernier systemes ornithologiques et nouvelle 



classification proposee pour les oiseaux. Paris, 1891. 

 Remarques sur FOrnithologie de I'Etat Independant du 



Congo. Annales du Musee du Congo, vol. i. 19U5. 



He also contributed to Wytsman's ' Genera Avium ' the 

 monographs on the Pelecanidae, Musophagidse, and Bucero- 

 tidse, and over a hundred other communications to various 

 scientific journals. He was a good artist, and most of the 

 illustrations of his various works were prepared by himself. 



Max FiJRBRINGER. 



The news of the death of Prof. Max Fiirbringer, which 

 occurred at Heidelberg on 6 March, 1920, has only recently 

 reached us, probably owing to the difficulty of seeing the 

 German Scientific Journals during the past two years. 



Pi'of. Fiirbringer was born at Wittenberg in 1848, and was 

 therefore in his 75th year at the time of his death. He 

 early devoted himself to the study of the anatomy of the 

 Vertebrates, and after holding various minor teaching posts, 

 was successively Professor of Anatomy at the Universities 

 of Amsterdam, Jena, and Heidelberg, where he succeeded 

 his master, Carl Gegenbaur, in 1901, and where he remained 

 for the rest of his life. 



His great work, ' Untersuchungen zur Morphologic und 

 Systematik der Vogel zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomic der 

 Stiitz- und Bewegungsorgane,^ was published at Amsterdam 



