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XV. — Obituarij. 



Mr. F. C. Aplin and Sir John W. P. Campbell-Orde, Bart. 



Frederick Charles Aplin, a Member of the B.O.U. (elected 

 in 1887), died on the 31st August, 1897, at his residence, 

 Bodicote, Oxfordshire, at the age of 43. Born at Bodicote 

 on the 14th March, 1854, he was educated for the most part 

 privately, until he entered St. John's College, Oxford, where 

 he graduated B.A. He proceeded to the degree of B.C. L., 

 and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, but afterwards 

 relinquished the Bar in order to practise as a solicitor. 

 Aplin had an excellent knowledge of our native birds, and 

 paid several visits to the east coast of England in pursuit of 

 the autumn migrants and of wildfowl. In 1882, in con- 

 junction with his two brothers, he published ^A List of the 

 Birds of the Banbury District/ which was noticed in ' The 

 Ibis' (1883, p. 375), and he was at one time in the habit of 

 communicating occasional notes to ' The Zoologist,' the more 

 important of which had reference to the plumage of the 

 Kestrel, a subject in which he took great interest. Indeed, 

 the Birds of Prey were always his favourites. Some birds 

 of this order he kept in confinement from time to time, and 

 his knowledge of the Accipitres as a whole was extensive. 

 His copy of the first volume of the British Museum Catalogue, 

 carefully annotated with references to 'The Ibis' and other 

 works, bears testimony to the attention he paid to the Diurnal 

 Birds of Prey, and he was a diligent student of all that the late 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney wrote on the subject. Indeed, he always 

 regretted the want of opportunities for carrying out, in a 

 practical manner, his study of the Accipitres, upon which he 

 would otherwise have doubtless become an authority. As a 

 field-ornithologist his observations were characterized by 

 scrupulous accuracy. 



Sir John William Powlett Campbell-Orde, of North 

 Uist and Kilmory, Bart. — We have to regret the loss of 

 another of the rapidly-diminishing number of the twenty 

 founders and original Members of our Union, of whom eight 



