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of Existing Birds. 8vo. London, 1890. Supplement 

 to ditto. 8vo. London, 1895. 



8. The Geographical Distribution of British Birds. 8vo. 



London, 1893. 



9. Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Skipton, 



1893. 8vo. London, 1893. 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes, F.Z.S. — Those of our readers who 

 are interested in the ornithology of India will regret to hear 

 of the death of Lieut. H. E. Barnes, author of that useful 

 handbook * The Birds of Bombay/ and of a valuable series of 

 papers entitled '' Nesting in Western India," which appeared, 

 with excellent illustrations drawn by himself, in the ' Journal 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society.' 



Barnes was born at Oxford in 1848, and received his 

 education at the University School there. His father 

 apprenticed him to a cabinet-maker, but he ran away to 

 Reading and tried to enlist in the Royal Engineers. Not 

 being up to the required measurements, he joined the 

 2nd Queen's, and went with them to Aden in 186G, where he 

 served as regimental schoolmaster for two years. He joined 

 the Commissariat Department in 1870, and served in the 

 Afghan War in 1879-80, after which he obtained his com- 

 mission. 



For the last twenty years Lieut. Barnes has been an 

 active collector of eggs and birds'-skins, especially while he 

 was stationed at Aden, Deesa, Mount Abu, Sind, Neemuch, 

 Saugor, Poona, and Bombay. He leaves behind him a 

 valuable collection — consisting of several thousand eggs of 

 7&7 species, mostly in clutches, together with a complete 

 catalogue and carefully prepared notes, as to when and 

 where the eggs were taken. The collection also includes 

 382 skins of Indian birds. 



Barnes will be known to all readers of * The Ibis ' by the 

 excellent article on the birds of Aden published in this 

 Journal for 1893. 



