318 Ohituary. 



Professor Dr. Victor Fatio dieJ on March 19th, 1906, at 

 the age of 67. He was the leading Swiss ornitbologist and a 

 well-known figure at the Ornithological Congresses. (' Ibis,' 

 1906, p. 608.) 



Sir Walter Lawry Buller died on Jnly 19th, 1906, in bis 

 69th year. The ' History of the Birds o£ New Zeabtnd ' bas 

 given bis naine a high place among ornitbologists. (' Ibis/ 



1906, p. 733.) 



Professor Alfred Newton passed away at Magdalena 

 College, Cambridge, on the 7th of June, 1907, within a few 

 days of bis 78tb birthday. (An obitnary of this great ornitbo- 

 logist is found in the ' Ibis' for 1907, p. 623.) 



Professor Dr. Rudolf Blasius, President of the Grorman 

 Ornithological Society, died at Braunschweig on September 

 2 Ist, 1907. He was a striking ligure at all the Ornitho- 

 logical Congresses and for many years President and the most 

 energetic Secretary o£ the Permanent Ornitbological Com- 

 mittee and Editor of the ' Ornis.' (See Journ. f. Orn. 1908, 

 p. 1.) 



In the same year, 1907, Charles Augustus Wright, an old 

 member of the British Ornitbologists' Union, and a niember of 

 the Fourtb Congress, died. (See ' Ibis,' 1907, p. 633.) 



Also Julius Pungur, Secretary of the Hnngarian Ornitho- 

 logical Central Bureau, passed away in 1907. (See ' Aquila,' 



1907, p. 1.) 



On December 30th, 1907, the death occurred of Josef 

 Talsky, a member of several Oinithological Congresses. 

 (Journ. £. Orn. 1908, p. 301.) 



Dr. J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Director of the National 

 Zoological Museum at Lisbon, died in 1908, at the ripe age of 

 84. His ' Ornithologie d'Angola ' and many other works on 

 African ornithology have made bim famous as an ornitbologist. 



In the same year occurred the death of the Swiss ornitbo- 

 logist Dr. Albert Girtanner. (Ornith. Monatsschr. 1908, 

 p. 42.) 



