ON THE ANATOMY OF BIEDS. 213 



I hope I have succeeded in showing my fellow members of the B. O. U . 

 and others that Garrod's work and generalizations did not depend upon 

 any single character or set of characters. No man probably has ever yet 

 enjoyed such opportunities or ample material for research in any single 

 group of animals as he did ; and he had, in addition, the advantage 

 of all the work previously done on the subject, the value of which was 

 duly estimated by him in forming his own conclusions. He came to the 

 question of the classification of birds quite fresh, with none of those 

 prejudices on the subject which are nearly inevitable amongst those who 

 have worked at birds in their early days and so imbibed more or fewer 

 of the traditional ideas on the subject. In addition, he had had all the 

 advantages of a regular medical and scientific education, and was therefore 

 the less likely to be tempted into rash generalizations or led away by 

 crude theories. This much is certain : no future attempt to classify birds 

 can omit to take into consideration the contributions to this subject 

 made by the brilliant genius of our late member, which will always 

 remain as a lasting tribute to his memory. 



36. NOTES ON THE UNFINISHED WORK LEFT BY Ibis, 1881, 

 THE LATE PROF. GARROD ON THE ANATOMY p " 174< 

 OF BIRDS * 



As many of the readers of * The Ibis ' probably already know, and 

 as I have incidentally stated above (p. 2), I am now engaged in the com- 

 pletion of the unfinished work left by the late Prof. Garrod on the 

 Anatomy of Birds. Thanks to the stores of specimens accumulated by 

 him, and my prosectorial advantages, I have in my possession (or, at all 

 events, have prospectively) specimens in the flesh of nearly all of the 

 most important forms of birds. 



There, are, however, still left a considerable number of which I have Ibis, 1881, 

 not as yet succeeded in obtaining any examples ; and of these I append a P* I75- 

 list. It is naturally my wish to make the ' Anatomy of Birds ' as complete 

 as possible, and to examine, for that purpose, as many forms of birds as can 

 be obtained. I hope, therefore, that any members of the B. O. U., or 

 travellers or naturalists generally, who may have it in their power to 

 obtain specimens of any of these my " desiderata/'' will do all they can 

 to enable me to acquire these forms. 



PASSERES. In this group of birds there is so much uniformity in anato- 



* Ibis, 1881, pp. 174-177. 



