1917-] Obituary. 617 



Curatorship of the Australian Museum tlie leading orni- 

 thologist of Australia. He was never a member of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, 



A good portrait and an obituary notice, from which most 

 of the facts here njade use of are taken^ Mill be found in the 

 April number of ' The Emu.' 



Eric Brooke Dunlop. 



Another promising young ornithologist has fallen a victim 

 to the war in the person of Eric Dunlop, who fell in action 

 on 19 May, 1917, at the age of 30 years. 



The elder son of Arthur Brooke Dunlop, of The Hove, 

 Troutbeck, AVindermere, young Dunlop was educated at 

 Rugby. His early life was spent in the Lake District, 

 where he had many opportunities of studying the bird-life, 

 and prior to his leaving England for Canada in 1913 he bad 

 prepared an appendix to Macpherson's 'Fauna of Lakeland,' 

 bringing the work up to date with additional matter and new 

 records. 



In Canada he continued his ornithological studies and 

 worked at the nesting-habits and incubation periods of 

 the birds of northern Manitoba, contributing articles on 

 these subjects to the 'Auk' and ' British Birds.' He had 

 also amassed a fine collection of birds' skins showing varia- 

 tion and plumage-changes, as well as a valuable series of 

 skins of the fur-bearing mammals of Canada. 



In 1915 he enlisted in the 78th Canadian Grenadiers. 

 He came to England with that Battalion, but transferred 

 in 1917 to the Border Regiment, and was in France barely 

 a month before his death. He was not a member of our 

 Union. 



We have also with deep regret to announce the death of 

 !Mr. A. J. NoRTHj Colonial Member of the Union, for many 

 years attached to the vVustraliau Museum at Sydney. We 

 hope to give some account of him in the next number of 

 ' The Ibis.' 



