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the greater part of his life."^ He was, as has been said by one of his 

 compeers, a self-made man in the best sense of the word. His 

 monument is the Department of Birds in the British Museum, the 

 British Museum 'Catalogue of Birds,' and his 'Handlist of the 

 Genera and Species of Birds.' 



Dr. Sharpe was married in 1867, and leaves, besides his widow, 

 a family of ten daughters. 



Dr. Sharpe's death is a great loss to science, and an almost ir- 

 reparable one to the British Museum Department of Birds, which 

 has acquired its preeminent rank among the great ornithological 

 collections of the world mainly through his efforts; while his long 

 series of contributions to the literature of ornithology will be his 

 endurinc memorial to the end of time. 



NOTES ON SOME OF THE RARER BIRDS OF 

 WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN.^ 



BY N. A. WOOD AND A. D. TINKER. 



The writers have found in their work in Washtenaw County 

 that the present status of certain species of birds that inhabit the 

 region is not known or is different from what has been recorded. 

 Our object in this paper is to give a summary of the occurrence of 

 these forms at the present time, as it appears from our notes and 

 the specimens in the University of Michigan Museum. 



A. B. Covert's ^ list of the birds of Washtenaw County, and A. J. 

 Cook's "* list of Michigan birds (Washtenaw County records from 

 Dr. J. B. Steere) give the only general summaries of the occurrence 

 of the species in the County, and will be frequently referred to. 

 The miscellaneous notes on the subject that have appeared in the 

 literature will be cited in the text. 



1 Fagan, I. c, p. 283. 



- From the University of Michigan Museum. 



3 Covert, A. B. Birds, in History of Washtenaw County, Chicago, 1881. 



* Cook, A. J. Birds of Michigan. Bull. 94. Mich. Agri. Exp. Sta., 1893. 



