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proceeded so far to the northward. After taking his degree he 

 was urged by his maternal relatives, the Akroyds, to go into 

 " business," for which a favourable opportunity offered, but 

 he had already become devoted to an outdoor life, and pre- 

 ferred enjoying freedom on his own modest competence to 

 the confinement of a counting-house. Early in 1869 he set 

 out with Captain Elwes for Greece and Turkey, where they 

 passed some three months, with results that were published 

 in these pages ('Ibis/ 1870, pp. 59, 188, & 327). Later in 

 the same year he went to Scotland for the first time, and 

 soon after hired a shooting-place in Sutherland ; but this did 

 not hinder him from setting off in 1872 with Captain Shelley 

 to the Gold Coast, where they stayed two months collecting 

 birds and other zoological specimens (' Ibis/ 1872, p. 281), 

 and the next year to Matabili-land, in company with Messrs. 

 Gilchrist and F. and W. Oatcs. To assist him in collecting 

 on this expedition, he received a grant from the Worts Fund 

 of the University of Cambridge, and brought back to its 

 Zoological Museum many valuable specimens ; but the party 

 were unable to carry out the whole of their plan through the 

 failure of their draught-oxen. An account of the birds 

 obtained in the course of their journey was contributed by 

 him to our pages ( f Ibis/ 1873, p. 355). African zoology, 

 especially in the facilities it offered for sport, now took a 

 strong hold upon him, and a third expedition, this time to 

 Amaswazi-land, was undertaken by him in 1876, though he 

 had in the meanwhile married, and in 1888-89 a fourth to 

 Kilimanjaro — this last proving most disastrous, and being 

 brought abruptly to an end through his companion and very 

 dear friend, Mr. Guy Dawnay, being killed by a buffalo. 

 The last two expeditions, having large game for their chief 

 object, though Buckley was by no means a mere slaughterer, 

 were not ornithologically productive. The passion for sport 

 led him also to North America, which he visited three times, 

 on the last occasion (1893) going to the Rocky Mountains 

 in quest of wild sheep j but wherever he might be, he was 

 always a close observer of all animal life, and yet with a 

 modest mistrust of the value of his own powers. Some 



