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sioncd in 1877. During his service at Stockholm, ]^/[cves 

 visited many parts of Sweden, from Skane up to Lapland, 

 also Northern Russia, the Ural, &c., for the purpose of col- 

 lecting birds and eggs. He also published many interesting 

 records of his observations. 



Meves's chief aim was to form, for the Stockholm Museum, 

 a perfect collection of Paltearctic birds in all the various 

 plumages, from the nestling upwards, and in this object he 

 was eminently successful. When, on giving up his appoint- 

 ment at the Museum, he could no longer continue this pur- 

 suit, he commenced forming a Palsearctic collection of 

 Lepidoptera, and his collection of these objects is said to be 

 one of the best in private hands. This collection he left to 

 the Stockholm Museum, having also, previously to his retire- 

 ment in 1877, presented to the same institution a very large 

 collection of Palsearctic eggs, which he had formed. Moves 

 married, in 1844, a daughter of Karl Lappe, the poet, who 

 died last year, and having had no children, adopted a nephew, 

 who is now in the Swedish Government service. 



In person Moves was strongly built, of medium height, 

 with a heavy shock of grizzled hair, a large grey beard, 

 and a pleasant open expression of countenance. As a field- 

 naturalist and a collector he was excellent, and as a taxi- 

 dermist, especially in the preparation of birds in down, few 

 could equal him. 



Although he commenced his researches in Natural History 

 so early in life, Meves did not publish anything until he 

 reached middle age ; his first article, that on the change of 

 colour in birds without and irrespective of moulting, was jiub- 

 lished in 1854. Since then he has written many articles, 

 which have chiefly appeared in the 'Ofversigt af K. Veten- 

 skaps-Akademicns Forhandlingar,^ and in the 'Journal 

 fiir Ornithologie.' Amongst these we may specially men- 

 tion his various memoirs on the birds of Sweden, and his 

 ornithological observations in North-west Russia. To him 

 also the credit is due of having described the mode in which 

 the "bleating " of the Snipe is produced [cf. P. Z. S. 1858, 

 p. 199) . 



