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as well as the external organs of Birds, and may be con- 

 sidered the originator of all modern systems of taxonomy. 

 His ' History of British Birds ' was based on this principle, 

 while his investigations were carried on during the whole 

 of his earlier life at Edinburgh, where he was successively 

 Assistant Keeper of the Natural History Museum and Con- 

 servator of the Museum of the College of Surgeons, as Avell 

 as at Aberdeen after his election to the post of Professor of 

 Natural History at Marischal College. MacGillivray was 

 a botanist and geologist, as well as a zoologist — a com- 

 bination not so rare in those days as now — and wrote 

 Manuals on all three subjects ; he is also well-known to 

 have collaborated with Audubon in his ' Ornithological 

 Biographies,^ and to have supplied most of the technical 

 matter. Ornithology, however, was his favourite subject 

 in manhood, and it was througli this that his great friend- 

 ship with Audubon was formed. MacGillivray's personality 

 was remarkable, as will be seen from the details of his 

 life; his early struggles, his laborious journeys for scientific 

 purposes in Scotland, and still more his arduous walk from 

 Aberdeen to London with only .€10 in his pocket, shew 

 a determination and energy beyond his years, while he 

 seems to have been of a lovable nature and to have been 

 highly esteemed by those associated with him. 



Prof. Thomson writes an appreciative notice of his 

 life in the penultimate chapter, while the last is devoted 

 to extracts from the various works that he published. 



18. Madardsz on new East-African Birds. 



[Neue Vogel aus Ostafrika. Von Dr. Julius v. Madarasz. Ai'chivuui 

 Zoologicum, vol. i. no. 11, p. 175 (1910).] 



In this new zoological journal Dr. J. v. Madanisz 

 gives an account of some birds obtained by Herr Koloman 

 Kittenberger in German East Africa, in the district 

 of Ngare-Dowash, on the southern side of Lake Victoria. 

 The new species described are named Phyllastrephus doiv- 

 ashunus, Crateropus reichenoivi, SSylviellu distinguenda, 

 Anthoscopus kolomanni, and Apus kittenbergi. The pretty 



