204 BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE LATE EUGENE WILLIAM GATES. 



It is with great regret that we have to record that Mr. 

 Eugene William Gates died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 

 November 16th, 1911, at the age of 66. From 1867 to 1899 

 Mr. Gates was in the Public Works Department, India. As an 

 ornithologist he will be best known for his excellent volumes 

 on the " Birds " in the well known Fauna of British India, 

 edited by the late W. T. Blanford. He also wrote A Hand- 

 hook to the Birds of British Burmah, edited the second edition 

 of Hume's Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, and wrote A 

 Manual of the Game Birds of India. Mr. Gates was also the 

 author of the first two volumes of the Catalogue of the 

 Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum, and was 

 joint author with Captain Savile G. Reid of the 3rd and 4th 

 volumes of that work. Mr. Gates was a Fellow of the 

 Zoological Society and was elected a member of the B.G.U. 

 in 1882, but retired in 1903, and shortly afterwards, owing to 

 ill-health, he ceased to do much active bird-work. 



