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7. A few Notes on the Birds of Egypt, from Observations made at Cairo 



in the Mouths of January and February 1890. Ibis, 1896, p. 477. 



8. Notes on the Eggs of the Frigate Bird and Crocodile of Jamaica. 



P.Z.S. 1858, p. 318. 

 Besides these Taylor was the author of the following 

 letters addressed to the Editors of this journal : — 

 On Egyptian Birds. Ibis, I860, p. L99. 



On the Occurrence of Turtur risorius in Europe. Ibis, 18G4, p. 410. 

 On Aquila culleni. Ibis, 1880, p. 14-"!. 



( >n the Occurrence of Coccyzus americanus in Italy. Ibis, 1884, p. 114. 

 On Coccyzus americanus and Porphyrio alleni in Italy. Ibis, 188J, 



p. I'll. 

 On Birds observed during a Visit to Egypt. Ibis, 1891, p. 473. 

 On the Crow of Somaliiand. Ibis, 1891, p. 628. 



Lieut. -Colonel Leonard Howard Loyd Irby, who died on 

 May 14th, 1905, at 14 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, 

 N.W., was the fourth son of the late Rear-Admiral the 

 lion. Frederick Paul Irby, C.B., 11. N., the second son of 

 the second Lord Boston. lie was born in 1836 and was 

 educated at Rugby. On May 5th, 1854, he was gazetted as 

 Ensign in the 90th Light Infantry, and six months later 

 proceeded with it to the Crimea. He served at the siege of 

 Sebastopol throughout the terrible winterof'1854-55, receiving 

 the medal and clasp and Turkish medal, and was promoted 

 Captain, February 24th, 1857. Two years later upon troops 

 being dispatched to China, the 90th L.I. were ordered 

 thither. Three companies — Capt. Garnet Wolseley's (now 

 Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley), Capt. Irby's, and another 

 — sailed in H.M. Troopship ' Transit' on April 8th, 1857. 



On the voyage out the vessel was wrecked in the Straits 

 of Banca, near Sumatra, and became a total loss. The 

 British soldiers were landed on a small island adjacent to 

 the scene of the wreck, and after ten days the ' Dove ' 

 gunboat arrived, bringing the startling news of the great 

 Sepoy Rebellion, and further orders that the 90th, in place 

 of continuing the vo3 T age to China, were to go to Calcutta. 

 Thither the regiment proceeded, via Singapore, arriving on 

 August 11th, 1857. From Calcutta they made a forced 

 march of some 700 miles to Cawnpore, arriving there whilst 



