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Most of the previous remarks applicable to oryx may also 

 be applied to the other members of the genus which I have 

 kept in confinement, although they are much quieter and less 

 assertive in their manners. The nest-building o£ taha and 

 capensis I am unable to describe, as they have never built in 

 my aviary as yet. 



I have never found the nest of oryx anywhere but in 

 reeds : capensis is riot so constant in choice of position, and 

 I have sometimes discovered their nests in long grass : that 

 of taha is generally observed well hidden in a tuft of grass 

 in some damp locality. 



OBITUARY. 



We regret to have to announce the death of the brilliant 

 young ornithologist and explorer Carlo " Freiherr " von 

 Erlanger at the early age of 34. He was born at 

 Ingelheim, Germany, on the 5th September, 1872, and 

 succumbed to the effects of an unfortunate accident whilst 

 driving in his motor-car on September 4:th, 1904, at 

 Salzburg. He was well known for his contributions on 

 ornithological matters to the German journals, and was 

 responsible for the creation of a large number of geogra- 

 phical subspecies, he being a systematist of the most modern 

 school. From his school days he was an ardent naturalist, 

 and at Frankfurt-a.-Maine, Lausanne, Cambridge (1895), 

 and Berlin, in which places his education was conducted, he 

 kept up his ornithological studies. His first important tour 

 was in Tunis (1893-4), and in 1896 he organised an expe- 

 dition to the Tunisian Sahara, the results of which made his 

 name world famous. His discoveries on this journey were 

 recorded in the 'Journal fiir Ornithologie^ in 1898 and 

 1899. His next expedition led him, with a splendidly 

 equipped party of associates, from Zeila on the Somaliland 

 coast, through Adis Abeba to Kismayu, and he brought back 

 no less than 8()()() ornithological specimens I The results of 



