^''''; f"^'] Correspondence. 24I 



To the Editors of " The Emu." 

 Sirs, — The " Note on the Finding of the Nest and Eggs of the 

 Desert Chat [Ashbyia lovensis)," by Edgar K. Waite, F.L.S., 

 Director of the South Austrahan Museum, which appeared on pp. 

 167 and 168 of the January issue of The Emu, was sent to me by 

 Mr. Waite, and was forwarded by me to the editor as received. — 

 Yours. &c., 



S. A. WHITE. 

 VVetunga, Adelaide, 12th March, 1917. 



Eggs of Garzetta nigripes : a Correction. — In my article upon 

 th? eggs of Garzetta nigripes in last issue of The Emit (vol. xvi., 

 p. 162), I wish to correct a possible mistake. My reference to 

 the non-description of the bird's head plumes was meant to apply 

 to the taking of the eggs rather than to the bird itself. Dr. Leach 

 and Messrs. Hall, Lucas, and Le Souef all have noted one or more 

 head plumes during the breeding season, though collectors taking 

 reputed clutches did not mention the plumes. In another part 

 of th^ same article the average dimensions of eggs is given as 

 1.73 X 1.24 inches ; this should read i.f)Q x 1.23 inches. — H. L. 

 White. Belltrees, 4/2/17. 



About Members. 



Members of the R.A.O.U. will be pleased to learn that at the 

 thirty-fourth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists, 

 Union, held in Philadelphia, Pa., 13th to i6th November, our 

 fellow-member, Mr. Robert Hall, C.M.B.O.U., C.M.2.S., was elected 

 a Corresponding Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union. 

 We congratulate Mr. Hall, who is a member of the R.A.O.L\ 

 Check-list Committee, on the honour conferred on him. 



Obituary. 



RAMSAY. — December 16, 1916, at his residence, Truro, Queensborough- 

 road, Croydon Park, Edward Pegjson Ramsay, LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c., 

 third son of the late David Ramsay, M.D., aged 74 years. 



All ornithologists — the older ones, at all events, to whom the 

 late doctor was better known — will desire to pay tribute to the 

 memory of Edward Pearson Ramsay. 



On the i8th December his remains were laid to rest in the old- 

 fashioned, vine-covered, stone vault with iron railings built by 

 his father, the late David Ramsay. M.D., an early Australian 

 settler, in the little private cemetery adjoining St. David's 

 Presbyterian Church, Haberfield. The son inherited his love of 

 Nature from his father, whose collections of birds, insects, &c., 

 are preserved in the Perth Museum, Scotland. It was fitting, 

 too, that Edward was buried near the old family Dobroyde estate, 

 Ashfield, where he obtained so much first field knowledge, and 



