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may occur on the mountains of Northern Greece, where 

 the Chough (Fregilus r/racu/us), also figured by Sibthorp 

 (Drawing 66), was probably likewise met with.*. 



I now think that I have said enough to call the attention of 

 ornithologists to this remarkable work, which is well worthy 

 of inspection by all students of our science w r ho may visit 

 Oxford. I am sure that Prof .JVines, F.R.S., the Sherardian 

 Professor of Botany, who now occupies the Chair once held 

 by Dr. Sibthorp, will be pleased to shew it to anyone interested 

 in the subject. But before concluding this article, I must 

 say a few words concerning Sibthorp himself, best known, 

 no doubt, to botanists by his ' Flora Grseca/ but also to be 

 honoured by zoologists for his intention of following it up, 

 as we now know, with a ' Fauna Gneca.' 



John Sibthorp, as wc are informed by Mr. Druce in the 

 introduction to his ' Flora of Oxfordshire/ was born at Oxford 

 in 1758, and, after finishing his education at Magdalen School 

 and Lincoln College, and taking the degrees of M.A. and 

 M.D., succeeded his father as "Sherardian Professor of Botany 

 in the University of Oxford/' in 1783. Soon after this he 

 planned an expedition to Greece for natural-history purposes, 

 and in aid of it secured the services of the excellent draughts- 

 man Ferdinand Bauer f- In March, 1780, they left Vienna 

 together, and first proceeded to Crete, where in June they 

 found flowers "abundant and in great beauty." Subse- 

 quently, after touching at several islands in the Archipelago, 

 they visited Athens and Smyrna, ascended the Bithynian 

 Olympus, and at length reached Constantinople, where they 

 passed the winter of 1786-7. 



* A letter just received from Herr Reiser informs me that he will 

 include the Snow-Finch in his new volume on the Birds of Greece, having 

 met with it on the highest ranges of Mount Yardusia in Phthiotis. 



f Ferdinand Bauer afterwards became draughtsman to the great 

 botanist, Robert Brown, and accompanied him during Flinders's voyage 

 to Australia in the ' Investigator ' (1801-5). In the Library of the 

 British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington there are 

 49 drawings of animals and 20-S of plants made by Bauer during this 

 voyage. 



