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a time in Alclerney and subsequently in Belfast until his 

 retirement, when he settled down in the eastern counties 

 for the remainder of his life. 



Butler was an extremely good field-ornithologist, with a 

 wonderful " eye for a bird," instantly recognizing any 

 species he had previously met with at the merest glimpse 

 of it, and at almost any distance. He was a very keen 

 sportsman, an untii'ing walker, and a capital shot. The 

 many beautifully prepared bird-skins which he collected 

 in his time remain in the Natural History Museum. 

 A remarkably little-known owl, Asio butleri Hume, per- 

 petuates his name in ornithology, but the Pipit, Anthus 

 hutleri, which Dr. Sharpe named after him, has since proved 

 to be only the fully-plumaged male of Anthus chloris. 



He married in 1872 Clara, second daughter of the late 

 General J. T, Francis, Bombay Staff Corps. Her death in 

 1912 was a great blow to him, and after it he became some- 

 what of a recluse, busying himself with his garden and his 

 collections, and going about very little. He leaves three 

 sons — Arthur Lennox, until lately Superintendent of Game 

 Preservation in the Sudan, who has inherited his father's 

 interest in ornithology and has been a Member of the Union 

 since 1899, Charles Edward, and Harry Francis. — A. L. B. 



XXXIII. — Notices of recent Ornithological Publications, 



Bangs ow the Bahaman Mocking-bird. 



[The smaller Moclcing-bird of the Northern Bahamas. By Oiitram 

 Bangs. Proc. New England Zoological Club, vi. 1916, p. 23.] 



This bird, formerly considered identical with the widely- 

 spread Mocking-bird of the United States, is here described 

 as a new subspecies under the name Mimus polygtottos 

 delenificus. It is found only on the northern island of the 

 Bahama group, its place on the southern islands being taken 

 by M. p. elegans Sharpe. 



