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THE LATE ERIC B. DUNLOP. 
THE war has claimed as a victim in the person of Mr. Eric B. 
Dunlop, who was killed in action on May 19th, 1917, at 
the age of 30 years, one of the most promising young 
ornithologists of the north of England. 
The elder son of Arthur Brooke: Dunlop, Esq., J-P., 
The Howe, Troutbeck, Windermere, he received his education, 
and concurrently his first lessons in Natural History, at 
Rugby and Carlisle. He was afterwards unofficially attached 
to the Carlisle Museum, Tullie House, where he did good work 
for local ornithology. His residence amongst the hills and 
dales of the Lake District gave him exceptional opportunities 
of observing the resident birds, and he made many useful 
notes on the habits of the Common Buzzard, Peregrine 
Falcon and Raven. He made a special study of the roosting 
habits of the Corvidae showing that the whole of the British 
members of this group of birds congregated for roosting 
at certain seasons. At the outbreak of the war he was 
engaged upon a study of the nesting habits and incubation 
of birds and was in northern Manitoba, Canada, pursuing 
his investigations into the extent and value of the ovitegous 
habit in birds. Prior to his leaving England he had practically 
completed an appendix to Macpherson’s Fauna of Lakeland, 
bringing that work, published in 1892, up to the end of 
1913, with much additional matter and new records. It is 
hoped that some means will be found of publishing post- 
humously this valuable addition to the Natural History of 
Lakeland. 
In Canada he made numerous interesting observations, 
some of which have already appeared in these pages; he 
also collected an extensive series of birds’ skins showing 
variation, changes and development of plumage, and a fine ~ 
series of skins of the fur-bearing mammals of Canada, especial 
attention being given to seasonal changes and variation. 
Although far from having finished his work in Canada, 
he decided, in 1915, to join the Army and enlisted in the 
78th Canadian Grenadiers. He came to England with that 
Battalion but transferred in 1917 to the Border Regiment, 
and was in France barely a month before his death. A 
service to his memory was held in Jesus Church, Troutbeck, 
on June 10th. Le. 
[Before leaving for the front Mr. Dunlop appointed the Rev. F. C. R. 
Jourdain his literary executor, and left directions for the manuscripts 
referred to above to be handed to him in the event of his death, so 
it is to be hoped that the valuable results of these researches will 
not be lost to science.—EDs. | 
