764 Obituary. [Il)is, 



Sandwich Terns certainly turned np in tlie Puerto de la Luz, 

 and tliree birds were obtained on the 28th of February, all in 

 full winter plumage, wiiich went with my collection to the 

 British Museum (Ibis, 1912, p. 578). Meade-Waldo saw 

 flocks of this species ofl' Faerteventura (Ibis, 1893, p. 206), 

 and Webb and Berthelot (Orti. Canarieiine, 1811, p. 41) 

 give Lanzarotc and Faerteventura as its '"habitat." I 

 identified a bird in the Gonzalez collection which had been 

 shot near Arrecife in Lanzarotc (Ibis, 1914, p. 63). 



I do not think S. sandvicensh breeds anywhere in the 

 Archipelago, and the statement to this effect in the B. O. U. 

 List of Birds, 1915, p. 268, is without foundation, and was 

 doubtless taken from Webb and Berthelot's book (supra), 

 which is long out of datf. 



Range. The Sandwich Tern breeds in Euro[)e and is not 

 known to nest south of Tunisia on the eastern side of the 

 Atlantic. In winter it follows the west coast of Africa down 

 to the Cape of Good Hope and ronnd to Natal. 

 [To be coiithuied.] 



XXXIIl. — Ohituarij. 



Sir William Macgregok. 

 It is with great regret that we notice the death of the 

 lit. Hon, Sir William Macgregor, G.C.M.G., which occnrred 

 at Aberdeen on 2 July last. He was 72 years of age. 



In Sir William Macgregor not only has the Empire lost 

 a great colonial administrator but a most learned man in all 

 branches of natural history and an explorer and geographer 

 of great note. The son of an Aberdeenshire farmer, he was 

 educated for the medical profession, and, like Cecil Rhodes, 

 in order to save his life, accepted the post of medical officer 

 at Seychelles, subsequently being promoted to Mauritius 

 and Fiji. 



Having acted for a time as High Commissioner of the 

 Western Pacific, he was in 1881 appointed Administrator 

 of British New Guinea, declaring Queen Victoria's sove- 

 reignty over the territory in September. He spent over 



