5*2 Obituary. [Ibis, 



This species moults completely twice a year ; tlic spring 

 moult lasts from March to May, and many, at any rate, breed 

 during the moult — a very unusual thing amongst any birds, 

 — and birds moulting to winter may be found from July to 

 November. The juvenile also has a complete moult during 

 this period. The juvenile tail is about the same length as 

 the adult summer tail, and the colour of the plumage about 

 between the colours of summer and winter of adults. The 

 Colour of the bill in the breeding season is not entirely 

 black ; the base of the lovver mandible is always pale — flesh 

 or grey, — and breeding birds may be met with, even with 

 brown bills. 



Summer — seven males measure : wing 47*5-5)}, tail 55-57. 

 Winter — three males : tail 72-80 mm. 



Summer — thirteen females measure: win<i; 4(j'5-51, tail 

 49-57. Winter — five females : tail 69-74 mm. 



I cannot separate Sind birds from typical inornata from 

 the Deccan. Neither P. socialis nor P. sijlvatica occurs in 

 Sind; a race of the former is found in the Lower Punjab 

 and Mt. Aboo, of the latter in Cutch and Mt. Aboo. 



I To be continued.] 



XXXI. — Obituary. 



Robert Elliott Hakvey. 



We learn with regret of the death of Mr. R. E. Harvey, 

 which took place on the 17th of January last at his home 

 in London, as the result of an attack of angina pectoris. 

 Mr. Harvey was born in 1850, and was therefore 72 years 

 old at the time of his death. He was an old Member of 

 Lloyd's, and only became a member of the Union in 1921. 

 Though interested in birds and ornithology he was not an 

 active worker, and so far as we are aware never published 

 anvthing- in regard to our science. 



