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says that Lis observations in Algeria conlradict the popular 

 belief and Professor Newton^s statement that northern 

 migrants towards the end of summer (when food gets scarce 

 in the most northern limits of the range of a species) begin 

 to press upon the haunts of other individuals ; these in like 

 manner upon that of others, and so on until the movement 

 begun in the north is communicated to the individuals 

 occupying the extreme range of the species at that season. 

 He considers that the contrary takes place, and that the 

 northernmost individuals migrate farthest South. 



In this number C-ount Zedlitz also gives us his account of 

 the ornithological results of Paul Spatz/s journey in the 

 Algerian Sahara in the summer of 1912. 



Both of these articles aforementioned are of orreat interest 



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to ornithologists, but we must refer the reader to the 

 periodical in which they are printed for more information. 



IX.— Obituary. Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, F.Z.8., &c. 



(Plate.) 



Dr. Jan Willem Boudewyn Gunning, M.D., Chevalier du 

 Merite Agricole, Director of the Transvaal Museum and 

 Zoological Gardens, passed away quietly in his sleep at his 

 residence in Pretoria on Monday morning the 23rd June, 

 1913. 



Dr. Gunning was born on 3rd September, 18G0, at Hilver- 

 sum, in Holland. He was the second son of the late Dr. J. 

 H. Gunning, of the Universities of Lej'den and Amsterdam ; 

 he was educated in Holland, France and Germany, and 

 attended the Universities of Amsterdam, Leyden and Jena, 

 taking his degree of M.D. at the hist named University. In 

 1884 he came to South Africa, and in the same year married 

 Miss Suzanna Ncethling, daughter of the late Hon. M. L. 

 Neethling, of Stellenbosch. In 1888 his wife died, leaving 

 him three sons. In 1889 he married Miss Ellen Dobbin, 

 daughter of W. H, Dobbin, of Bethulie, Orange Free State, 



