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lungs. We borrow from our contemporary the following notes 

 on the career of this Naturalist : — " Although his interest 

 and work were scattered over a wide field, ornithology was, 

 from an early day, Jouy^s favourite study, and naturally 

 enough his first interest centred around the birds of 

 Washington, D.C., where most of his life was spent. But 

 Prof. S. F. Baird, one of whose devoted pupils he was, had 

 work for him in other fields, and as an opportunity oifered 

 itself in 1881 he went out to China and Japan, where he made 

 extensive collections for the Smithsonian Institution. His 

 ornithological collections from Central Japan were eminently 

 valuable, on account both of their extent and quality, and 

 especially because of the full notes which accompanied them. 

 These results were embodied in a paper published in the ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the U.S. National Museum' for 1883, one of the 

 most important contributions to our knowledge of the Japanese 

 avifauna. From Japan Jouy went to Corea, and at once pro- 

 ceeded to form one of the largest and most valuable natural- 

 history collections ever made in that distant land, then almost 

 entirely unknown — collections which were afterwards en- 

 riched and completed during a sojourn of several years at 

 Fusan while holding a position in the Chinese customs service 

 of Corea. These collections, after his return home, were 

 acquired for the greater part by the U.S. National Mu- 

 seum, and it had been Jouy's full intention to Avork up the 

 splendid material which he had gathered. But the museum at 

 first needed his services in other branches, and afterwards 

 failing health, which exhausted his strength and made it de- 

 sirable to seek other climates, prevented the accomplishment 

 of this desire. He went out collecting again, this time to 

 Southern Arizona and Mexico, where, in spite of adverse cir- 

 cumstances, be continued his work and observations, helped 

 by his faithful wife. The notes made during their stay in 

 Mexico he was able to work up into a paper entitled ' Notes 

 on Birds of Central Mexico, with Descriptions of Forms 

 believed to be new ' [see above, p. 558], but he did not have 

 the satisfaction of seeing it published, as it was not issued 

 until shortlv after his death.'' 



