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anfl measures approximately 1'2j X 1 incli. It is pure wliite, 

 sparingly marked all over with large round and oval bright 

 brown and slaty-grey spots of various sizes, the majority of 

 these spots forming an irregular ring on the larger end. 

 Mr. Bartlett is of opinion that, judging from the egg, the 

 nearest ally of Pityriasis would be Gymnorhina of Australia, 

 as arranged by Gadow (Cat. of Birds, viii. p. 90). 



Proposed Memoir of the late A. G. More. — Many friends 

 of the late naturalist Alexander G. More have expressed 

 their wishes to see a short memoir of him published. Any 

 one having letters or papers of interest relating to this subject 

 is requested to lend them for selection to his sister, Miss 

 More, 74 Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin. 



XUl.— Obituary.— My. H. T. Wharton, Mr. II. Seebohm, 

 Lieut. H. E. Barnes, Dr. R. Brown, and the Rt. Hon. 

 T. H. Huxley. 



Henry Thornton Wharton, whose death we recorded, 

 in our last number, was the third son of the late Rev. H. 

 J. Wharton, vicar of Miteham, Surrey, where he Mas 

 born on Nov. 16th, 184-6. He was educated at Charter- 

 house and Wadham College, Oxford, where he took the 

 degree of B.A. in 1871 and M. A. in 187-4. Wharton selected 

 the profession of Medicine, and became M.R.C.S. Eng. in 

 1875. In addition to a few papers in 'The Zoologist' 

 and ' The Ibis ' on the orthography, derivation, or meaning 

 of the names of birds, he publi^hed a ' List of British Birds,' 

 the genera being arranged according to Sundevall's method, 

 and displayed much classical knowledge as editor of the 

 ' B. O. U. List of British Birds,' during the five years which 

 elapsed between the inception and conclusion of that work. 

 Apart from ornithology, he was an excellent Greek scholar 

 and a leading authority upon Sappho. 



Henry Seebohm. — With very deep regi'ct we record the 

 loss of our excellent friend and coadjutor Henry Seebohm, 



