520 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Austral Avian Eecoid. (Vol. iii. No. 3. London, 1916.) 

 Avicultural Magazine. (Third Series, Vol. vii. Nos. 6-8. Lond< 



1916.) 

 Bird Notes. (New Series, Vol. vii. No.?. 4-6. Ashbourae, 1916.) 

 British Birds. (Vol. ix. Nos. 11, 12; Vol. x. No. 1. London, 1916.) 

 California Fish and Game. (Vol. ii. No. 2. San Francisco, 1916.) 

 The Condor. (Vol xviii. No. 2. Hollywood, Cal., 1916.) 

 The Emu. (Vol. xv. pt. 4. Melbourne, 1916.) 

 The Irish Naturalist. ( Vol. xxv. Nos. 4, o. Dublin, 1916.) 

 La Science Fraugaise. (Tomes i., ii. Paris, 1915.) 

 Messager Ornithologique. (1916, No. 2. Moscow, 1916.) 

 The Scottish Naturalist. (Nos. 52-54. Edinburgh, 1916.) 

 South Australian Ornithologist. (Vol. ii. pt. 6. Adelaide, 1916.) 



XXVII. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 

 The Rev. William Henry Hawker. 



Sir, — Among the original members of tlie British Orni- 

 thologists' Union was the Rev. William Henry Hawker, an 

 accomplished naturalist. In an obituary notice published 

 in ' The Ibis,' 1874 (p. 464) — the year of his death — it is 

 stated that he was not a contributor to the pages of this 

 Journal. Again^ in an appreciation published in the Jubilee 

 number of 'The Ibis/ 1909 (p. 101), we find the same 

 statement. These notices are not correct; for he was, 

 on the contrary, one of the very earliest contributors lo 

 the new publication. 



In the opening volume of 'The Ibis' for 1859 (p. 330) 

 may be read a communication in which Mr. Hawker 

 describes the supposed nesting in Hayling Island of the 

 " Ash-coloured '' Shrike, Lanivs exciibitor. 



In both the above mentioned notices Mr. Hawker's 

 christian names are correctly given, but in the Subject- 

 Index, 1859-1894 (p. 56), his initials are confused, for, 

 as contributor to * The Ibis,' his name is entered as 

 " Hawker, Rev. E. W.", while it is given correctly in the 

 notice of his death on the same page. 



It is curious that three mis-statements should occur in 

 connexion with the same individual, but my own excuse 



