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Phylloscopus collybita exsul. Lanzarote Chiffcliaff. 

 PJiyltoscojms collybita exsul Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. i. 

 1907, p. 505 — Type locality : Lanzarote. 

 A Resident subspecies. 

 Hub. in Archipelago. 



Eastern Group : Lanzarote. 

 Obs. Confined to this island. 

 Range beyond the Archipelago. 



Does not occur. 



VII. — Obituary. 



Thomas Algernon Dorrien-Smith. 



We learn with regret that Mr. T. A. Dorrien-Smitli, the 

 Lord Proprietor of the Scilly Islands, died on 6 August last 

 at Tresco Abbey. He was elected a Member of the Union 

 in 1904. 



Born in 1846 at Berkhamsted, the son of the late 

 Col. R. A. Smith-Dorrien^ Mr. Dorrien-Smith was educated 

 at Harrow, and served for some years in the 10th Hussars 

 and afterwards in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry. In 1872 

 he succeeded his uncle, the late Mr. Augustus Smith of 

 Tresco Abbey, and for many years M.P. for Truro^ as 

 Lord Proprietor of the Scilly Islands. During the rest 

 o£ his life he made his home in Scilly and devoted himself 

 to the care and improvement of the wonderful subtropical 

 gardens at Tresco, which had been laid out by his uncle. 

 He also did a great deal for the inhabitants of the islands by 

 introducing the early cultivation of flowers and vegetables 

 for the London market. 



His son, Mr. A. Dorrien-Smith, himself a well-known 

 botanist, writes as follows : — 



" He was much interested in natural history and birds 

 in particular, but before his time most of the rarer birds 

 shot in the islands Avere sent to Mr. R. Rodd, of Tre- 

 baltha, Cornwall. Among these was included the Purple 

 Heron^ which has been seen since, but not destroyed. 



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