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the impression that he had met with an ornithologist and 

 a man ! — E. H. 



Comte Amedee Alleon. — The biographical memoir pre- 

 pared by Dr. Paul Leverkuhn, and published in the last 

 number of ' Ornis/ enables us to say a few words upon 

 Count Amedee Alleon, who died on the lGth of January, 

 1904, at his residence, Makrikeuy, near Constantinople. 

 Jean Gerard Amedee Alleon, born at Buyak-Dere on the 

 Bosphorus, on the 8th of October, 1838, was the son of 

 Count Jacques Alleon, and belonged to a well-known French 

 family long engaged in financial business in Turkey. From 

 his earliest days Alleon exhibited great artistic talent com- 

 bined with a love of Natural History. A large series of his 

 drawings of birds is now in the Museum of H.R.H. Prince 

 Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Sophia, where is also preserved the 

 most extensive of several collections of the birds of European 

 Turkey which he formed, consisting of upwards of 1000 

 specimens. Alleon's name is well known to all workers in 

 European Ornithology as that of one of our best authorities 

 on the birds of the vicinity of Constantinople and the western 

 coasts of the Black Sea. In preparing his memoirs he was 

 mostly associated with Jules Vian, of Belleville, near Paris, 

 to whom he was latterly in the habit of transmitting his speci- 

 mens by the Orient Express. A catalogue of the birds of the 

 vicinity of Constantinople by Alleon and Vian will be found 

 in the 'Bulletin of the Zoological Society of France' for 

 1880, and a memoir on the birds of the Dobrudsha and 

 Bulgaria by the same authors in ' Ornis ' for 1886. Alleon 

 was also an excellent taxidermist, and published two works 

 on this subject in 1889 and 1898. A complete list of his 

 writings is appended to Dr. Leverkuhn's biographical notice. 

 In 1869 Mr. H. J. Elwes and the late Mr. T. E. Buckley 

 visited Alleon at Constantinople and, as will be seen in 

 their article on the birds of Turkey ('Ibis/ 1870, p. 60), 

 gave a most appreciative account of the work he was then 

 carrying on. 



