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came from his pen in 1901. He was actively concerned in 

 the Bird-Department of the Fisheries Exhibition in London 

 in 1883, while he always kept in close touch with the 

 Naturalists of the United States, where he was an Honorary 

 Member of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



" Saunders had a world-wide reputation as an authority on 

 the family Laridce (Gulls and Terns), and published im- 

 portant papers on it in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London ' for 1876-8, and the ' Journal of the 

 Linnean Society (Zoology) ' for 1878, hence he was naturally 

 selected to write the portion of the twenty-fifth volume of 

 the ' Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum ' which 

 deals with this group. But to the public in general he will 

 always be best known as the Editor, in 1884-5, of the last 

 two volumes of the fourth edition of Yarrell's ' British 

 Birds,' commenced by Professor Newton, and as the author 

 of that most excellent work ' An illustrated Manual of British 

 Birds,"" issued in 1889, wherein was included not only the 

 whole essence of ' Yarrell/ but a large amount of fresh 

 information, though two pages only were given to each species. 

 The value of this volume to Pala?arctic Ornithologists was 

 speedily made evident by the call for a second edition in 

 1899, after which date Saunders continued to keep up a 

 constant correspondence with those who recorded additions 

 to the British List, as published by himself in 1887, and the 

 last article from his pen was one dealing with this subject 

 in the new periodical entitled ' British Birds.-' 



" The death of our Secretary will, however, be felt most 

 particularly by his friends and fellow-workers, to whom he 

 was always accessible and whose writings he was invariably 

 willing to revise ; in fact the correction of the proofs of 

 others consumed a large portion of his time in later life. 

 Kind and helpful as he was, we cannot end our notice with- 

 out once more expressing our great sense of the loss that we 

 and others have sustained," 



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