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history of the Solan Goose from the earliest times, and is 

 supplemented by his own observations on the habits of the 

 bird on the Bass Rock. 



During his voyage to Magellan Straits he sent three 

 interesting letters to 'The Ibis' for 1868-69, and the birds 

 which he collected and sent home were named and com- 

 mented on by P. L. Sclater and Osbert Salvin in the same 

 volumes. His collections Avere ultimately deposited in the 

 Museum at Cambridge. 



After his return to England he wrote two papers on the 

 anatomy of certain Kingfishers and on the osteology of 

 Rhea americana and Rhea clarwini for the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society' for 1870 and 1871, and a more 

 important memoir " On some points in the Anatomy of 

 the Steamer Duck (JMicropterus cinereus) " in the Trans- 

 actions of the same Society (vol. vii. 1871, pp. 493-501, 

 pis. Iviii.-lxii.). 



L. Beresford Mouritz. 



We have only recently learnt that Mr. L. B. Mouritz, who 

 enlisted as a private in the 2nd Australian Light Horse at 

 the commencement of the war, and who was reported missing 

 during the Gallipoli fighting, was subsequently declared 

 killed in action on 14 May, 1915, by a Court of Enquiry 

 which sat to determine his fate. 



Mr. Mouritz, al)Out whom we regret to say we have very 

 little information, was an Australian and a mining engineer 

 by profession. His business took him to South Africa, 

 where he resided for some time at Bulawayo. He wrote an 

 important paper for 'The Ibis' (1915, pp. 185-216 and 

 534-571) on the ornithology of the Matopo district near 

 Bulawayo, and another on his observations in Katanga, 

 Belgian Congo, while on a prospecting expedition in that 

 country under Anglo- Belgian auspices (Ibis, 1914, pp. 26-38), 

 and these papers show that he was very familiar with 

 African birds and an excellent observer. 



He was elected a member of the Union in 1912, and is 

 the 15th member that the Union has lost through the war. 



