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also interested in the birds of North America (cf. Bull. B.O.C., v., 

 pp. xxi., xlii.). He is the author of " A Century's Work on Ornithology 

 in the Kingsbridge District" (Rep. Devon. Ass., xxix., pp. 167-174, 1897). 



Elliott (George Francis Scott). 



8 specimens from Madagascar. Presented. [89. 9. 25, 1-8.] 

 35 specimens from Ruwenzori and Lake Albert Edward. Presented. 

 [96. 2. 12, 1-35]. 



Mr. Scott-Elliot is chiefly known as a Botanical Collector, but he 

 procured some specimens of birds during his travels in Equatorial Africa, 

 and discovered a new species of Zusterops on Ruwenzori, which has been 

 named after him, Zosterops scotti, by Mr. Oscar Neumann (Orn. M.B., 

 vii., p. 24). See Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., i. (Botany), p. 146. 



Elliott (J. Steele). 



A specimen of the Sub-Alpine Warbler (Sylvia suha^yina) from St. 

 Kilda, being the only known specimen from the British Islands. [1901. 

 1. 4, 1.] 



29 eggs from St. Kilda, Donegal and Shropshire. Presented. [1902. 

 7. 7, 1-13 ; 1904. 8. 11, 1-16.] 



87 eggs of British birds. Presented. [1904. 10. 20, 1-87.] 



Elsey (J. R.). 



249 specimens from N.W. Australia. Presented. [57. 9. 18, 1-56 ; 

 57. 10. 28, 1-193.] 



Dr. Elsey was the medical officer attached to the Gregory Expedition. 



Elwes (H. J.), F.B.S. 



98 birds (Ducks). Presented. [89. 4, 3, 1-80 ; 89. 4. 9. 1-18.] 



The record of Mr. H. J. Elwes constitutes as fine a display of energy 

 and devotion to scientific work as any iu the annals of English science. 

 Born in 1846, he was educated first at Mr. Goldney's school at Tonbridgc, 

 where the present Lord Walsingham made the study of natural history 

 the rage, and this doubtless had its influence in the after career of Mr. 

 Elwes. After four years at Eton, he joined the Scots Guards ia 1865, 

 and it was in 1863 and 1864 that he made his first expeditions in pursuit 

 of nattiral history to the Orkney Islands. He stayed at Stromuess in the 

 house of the well-known collector, John Dunn, and was nearly drowned 

 during one of their expeditions in the very boat in which Dunn lost his 

 life a few years afterwards. Mr. Elwes visited Islay on several occasions, 

 and again on one of these visits be narrowly escaped drowning through 

 the swamping of the boat in wdiich he was sailing. The ornithological 

 notes which lie made were sent to the late Robert Gray, who was at that 

 time engaged in writing his book on the * Birds of the West of Scotland.' 



In 1868, when the Guards were quartered at the Tower, he obtained 

 leave for the summer, and spent three months in the Hebrides, accom- 

 panied for the first ten days by T. E. Buckley. In those days the 

 White-tailed Eagle {Haliaetus alhicilla) was common in Skye, three nests 

 being foimd in a couple of days, and to two of these he descended over the 

 cliffs by means of a rope. Sixty of these birds had been destroyed on 

 the farm of Glenbrittle by Mr. Cameron, the tenant, with whom the 

 travellers stayed, and who was afterwards killed by being thrown out of a 

 window in a row which took place at Portree. 



In 1869, Mr. Elwes went with the late Mr. T. E. Buckley on an 

 expedition to Greece, Turkey, and the Crimea. While in Attica, the 



