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between l6'ji> and 18(J1, but perhaps Ava.s better known for 

 his association with Palestine, which he freqnently visited. 

 In 1860 he published 'The Great Sahara,' in 1865 'The 

 Land o£ Israel,' in 1878 'The Land of Moab,' and in 1884 

 ' The Fauna and Flora of Palestine.' He was one of the 

 founders of the British Ornithologists' Union and w^as elected 

 a Fellow of the Kojal Society in 1868. He was an ardent 

 collector, and in 18D6 his Birds, which contained some 20,000 

 specimens representing some 6000 species, were acquired by 

 the Free Public Museums at Liverpool. 



His egg collection was about the same time purchased 

 by Mr. Crowley, of Waddon, in Surrey, and at Mr. Crowley's 

 decease passed with the remainder of that gentleman's 

 splendid collections into the hands of the British Museum. 



He was educated at Durham School and Lincoln College, 

 Oxford; ordained Deacon in 1845 and Priest in 1846; was 

 naval and military cha})lain at Bermuda in 1847-49; was 

 Hector of Castle Eden in Durham from 1849-60; Rector 

 of Greatham from 1860-73, when he was appointed Canon 

 of Durham, where he lived the remainder of his life. 



Dr. Victor Fatio, the well-known Swiss ornithologist, 

 died at Geneva (where he was born) on the 18th March, 

 ]90(), at the age of sixty-seven. He was the leading 

 authority on Swiss ornithology as well as being closely 

 engaged in studying for many years the vine-pest, the 

 " Phylloxera " insect. He published, amongst other w^orks, a 

 Catalogue of Swiss Birds in three parts (1889, 1894, and 

 1901), and 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux,' which constituted 

 two volumes of his ' Faune des Vertebres de la Suisse ' 

 (1899 and 1904). 



He was a Foreign Member of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, having been elected in 1872, and represented Switzer- 

 land at manv Ornitholooical Congresses. 



Emile Oustalet, the well-known French ornithologist, 

 died on 23rd 0ctol)er, at St. Cast (Cotes du Nord), after a 

 painful though short illness. Born in August 1844. he 



