178 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



Obituary. — Mr. T. C. Eyton. We regret to have to chro- 

 nicle the death of one of the orifi^iual members of this Union. 

 Mr. Thomas Campbell Eyton^ of Eyton^ and Walford Manor, 

 Shropshire, died at his residence, near Wellington, Shrop- 

 shire, at the end of October last. Mr. Eyton Avas the eldest 

 son of the late Mr. Thomas Eyton, of Eyton, by his marriage 

 with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Major- General Donald 

 Campbell, and was born in the year 1809. He was educated 

 at St. John^s College, Cambridge, was a magistrate and 

 deputy-lieutenant for the county of Salop, and formerly held 

 a commission in the South Salop Yeomanry Cavalry. He 

 was a member of the Linnean, Geological, and Zoological 

 Societies. His museum at Eyton Hall contains a large 

 collection of birds and bird-skeletons, of which, we believe, 

 the types and more important specimens will go to the British 

 Museum. Mr. Eyton^s name is well known to ornithologists 

 as the author of the ' History of the rarer British Birds ' 

 (1836), the ' Monograph of the Duck tribe (1838), the ' Oste- 

 ologia Avium ^ (1861), and other works and papers. 



The Range of Porphyrio cseruleus. — In my note on the 

 name of the Purple Waterhen of South-western Europe 

 (Ibis, 1879, p. 195), I speak of that species as '^ restricted to 

 Spain and Algeria.''^ This is not quite correct, as it certainly 

 also occurs in Sardinia, whence Prof. Giglioli has kindly 

 supplied me with a specimen, killed in the marshes near 

 Cagliari in October 1877. Prof. Giglioli also assures me 

 that it is met with, though rarely, in Sicily, whence he has 

 likewise received examples. — P. L. Sclater. 



Prejevalsky's last Expedition. — Col. Prejevalsky is ex- 

 pected to arrive shortly in St. Petersburg from his last expe- 

 dition. The collections he brings with him are stated to 

 comprise 2000 specimens of birds ; so that there is every 

 reason to expect a great advance in our knowledge of the 

 ornithology of Tartary and Tibet. 



The neiv Otidiphaps. — Count Salvadori kindly informs us 

 that the new Pigeon described in ' The Ibis ' for July last 

 (1880, p. 364) as Otidiphaps regalis has also been named by 



