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XXXII.— OJzYwary. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage. 



With much regret we announce the death, at Lisbon, in 

 July last, of the senior Foreign Member o£ the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, Jose Vicente Barboza du Bocage, 

 at the advanced age of SJ'. 



Prof. Bocage's name is well known to all students of the 

 ornithology of Western Africa as one of our principal 

 authorities on that subject. His best-known work is upon 

 the birds of Angola [' Ornitliologie d'Angola'), published at 

 Lisbon, 1877-81. But, besides this, he wrote a large number 

 of memoirs and papers in various journals relating to the 

 birds of the Portuguese Colonies in Africa. On turning to 

 the General Subject-Index of * The Ibis' (1859-1894, p. 10), 

 the enquirer will find a long list of papers and notices under 

 Prof. Bocage's name, extending from 1863 to 1894. In 

 1898 he published a paper on the birds of the Cape Verde 

 Islands (see 'Ibis,' 1898, p. 614). He was for many years 

 Director of the National Museum at Lisbon, the Zoological 

 Section of which was lately renamed the " Museu Bocage," 

 in honour of the learned Professor, who had done so much 

 for its augmentation and development. Several African 

 birds have been called after him*, and in 1894 Capt. Shelley 

 instituted a new genus of Bush-Shrikes (Bocagia) in his 

 honour. 



Prof. Bocage was elected a Foreign Member of the British 

 Ornithogists' Union in 1872, and was also a Member of 

 many other scientific societies in England and on the Con- 

 tinent. He was a Councillor of State and Peer of Portugal, 

 and Professor of Zoology at the Polytechnic School of 

 Lisbon. 



* See Turdus bocagii, Neisna bocagii, and other species mentioned in 

 Keicheuow's ' Vo»el Af rikas.' 



