190 Letters, Extracts, Notices, &^c. 



A. von Pelzeln was never married^ but lived a domestic 

 life with liis two sisters. He was highly appreciated by his 

 colleagues, and well known for his quiet, benevolent, and 

 religious disposition. Of him it may be truly said that he 

 never had an enemy. 



The publications of our deceased Honorary Member were, 

 as is well known to us, very numerous. It is unnecessary 

 to give a complete list of them, but Herr von Pelzeln^s name 

 will ever be known to ornithologists as the author of an ex- 

 cellent account of Johann Natterer's great Collection of 

 Birds made in Brazil from 1817-1835. This was published 

 in 1871 under the title ' Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens.' 



Other well-known works of Pelzeln are his volume on the 

 Birds of the Novara-Expedition, and his 'Ornis Vindobo- 

 nensis.' His minor ornithological memoirs were published 

 mostly in the ^ Verhandlungen ^ of the Zoological and Bota- 

 nical Society of Vienna, of which he was one of the founders, 

 in the ' Sitzungsberichte^ of the Imperial Academy of Sci- 

 ences of Vienna, in the ' Journal f iir Ornithologie,^ and in 

 this Journal. 



Pelzeln was a member of most of the leading ornithological 

 Societies of Europe and America. He was elected an Hono- 

 rary Member of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1869. 

 Those of us who have had the pleasure of personal inter- 

 course with him will be unanimous in lamenting the loss of 

 a sincere friend and excellent correspondent. No one who 

 addressed inquiries to the Gustos of the well-known A'^ienna 

 Collection of Birds ever failed to receive an immediate and 

 satisfactory reply, and every possible assistance in his work. 



Captain Thomas Wright Blakiston, late R.A. — It is 

 with much regret that we have to announce the death, in 

 New Mexico, on the 17th of October last, of Captain Bla- 

 kiston, to whom we are indebted for so much of our know- 

 ledge of Japanese Ornithology. Captain Blakiston, who was 

 born in 1832, belonged to an old Durham family, and, after 

 passing through Woolwich, obtained a commission in the 

 Hoyal Artillery. In 1861 he wrote a very interesting paper 

 for this Journal on a collection of birds which he had made 



