110 Ohituar)/. 



white or dirty white colour, generally plain, but sometimes 

 marked with brownish blotches. The shape is a pointed 

 oval, and they measure about 3x2'25 inches. The nestinfr- 

 season is late winter and early spring (generally the months 

 of July and August). Dr. Stark found two nests in Upper 

 Natal in yellow-wood trees, 60 and 120 feet above the 

 ground. 



XIV. — Ohituarij. P. L. ScLATER and T. Ayres. 



Philip Lutley Sclater, D.Sc, Ph.D., M.A., (fee. 



[The following, from tlie pen of Mr. A. II. Evans, appeared in the 

 August 13 number of ' British Birds.'] 



We greatly regret to announce the death, on June 27th, 

 1913, as the result of a carriage accident, of Philip Lutley 

 vScLATER, D.Sc, F.Tx.S., at the age of eighty-three years. 

 The loss of so eminent an ornithologist will be dee[)ly felt by 

 all bird-lovers, and by none more than the members of the 

 British Ornithologists' Union, and the British Ornithologists' 

 Club. He was one of the founders of the former, and the 

 first Editor of its journal, ' The Ibis ' — a labour of love which 

 he undertook, with only one break, until a year ago ; of the 

 latter he was Chairman from its institution, while he took 

 the greatest interest in its proceedings, and was seldom 

 absent from its meetings. As Secretary of the Zoological 

 Society, from 1859 to 1902, animals in general became his 

 care, while his able conduct of the publications of the Society 

 and careful building-up of its magnificent library, will never 

 be forgotten by zoologists. In this important position he 

 was able to exercise a great and beneficial influence over the 

 welfare of Zoology, and many a young man has owed his 

 start in life to Sclater's kindly assistance. To all who applied 

 to him, his help was freely given in the promptest and most 

 efficient manner, and Science owes him a deep debt of 

 gratitude, as most of us have reason to remember. More- 

 over, the loss will be felt — not oidy in our country, but 



