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marriage with Juliana, daughter of the second Lord Water- 

 park. He was educated at Hugby and Cambridge, and, 

 after the usual course of theological study, took Holy Orders 

 in the Church of England, and served as curate in several 

 places, amongst which was Long Compton in Warwickshire. 

 But Taylor was not thoroughly devoted to his profession, and 

 when, in 1870, the Act was passed enabling clergymen of 

 the Church of England to give up their Orders, he took early 

 advantage of it and retired into lay life and the study of 

 birds, in which he had always taken a great interest from 

 his early youth. Taylor was a very accurate and painstaking 

 observer, besides making excellent skins, and was a constant 

 traveller. In the winter of lh53 he visited Egypt, and 

 ascended the Nile up to the First Cataract, making a good 

 collection of birds en route. In 1858, when tbis Union 

 was founded he became one of its original members, and, 

 though he was not present at the meeting at Cambridge in 

 November, 1858, when 'The Ibis ^ was founded, he con- 

 tributed an excellent article to the first number of this 

 journal, which was published in January 1859. 



Early in 1859 Taylor left England on an expedition to 

 Tunis and Algeria, in company with Sclater and two other 

 friends. The main object of the party was to visit the 

 breeding-sites of the Vultures and Eagles in those countries, 

 which had been so successfully explored by Salvm and 

 Tristram in 1857, as is recorded in the first volume of this 

 journal. No opportunity was lost by Taylor of adding to 

 his cabinet of birds during this expedition. His next long- 

 journey was of a more adventurous character. Leaving 

 England in December, 1872, he proceeded to the West 

 Indies, and besides made excursions from Trinidad to 

 the mainland of South America, visiting, amongst other 

 places, the towns of Ciudad Bolivar and Caracas. Birds 

 were studied and collected at all the places visited, and 

 the general results of the expedition were given to the world 

 in two articles published in ' The Ibis ' in 1864. Examples of 

 Pitangus taylori, a species of Tyrant-bird named by Sclater 

 after his friend and companion, were first obtained on this 



