372 Ohituarij. 



in almost any direction. He possessed a wonderful memory, 

 an infinite capacity for taking pains, and a facility for literary 

 expression, attributes in which he resembled his celebrated 

 uncle, the Poet. In youth he strongly resembled the Poet 

 in personal appearance, a fact imparted to tlie present 

 Avriter, nearly fifty years ago, by one who remembered to 

 have seen the young poet at Field. Place. To the last hour 

 of his life Captain Shelley was distinguished by that inborn 

 gentleness, modest}^, and courteous bearing which constitute, 

 in the highest sense, the well-born gentleman. It was the 

 same quality in the persecuted poet which, after Shelley^s 

 death, evoked the verdict of Byron, and the same may be 

 said with equal truth of his nephew: "^ Shelley ^' — said 

 Byron — " was, in every situation in life, always the perfect 

 gentleman.'" 



Captain Shelley was for many years well known as a first- 

 rate pigeon-shot. We once heard him playfully remark, 

 "I shew my love for dicky-birds by killing them !" As a 

 pigeon-shot he won many trophies at Ilurlingham, at the 

 Gnu Club, and at Monte Carlo. 



In 1889, Captain Shelley mariied Janet, daughter of the 

 late Mr. E. Andrewes, who, with two sons and a daughter, 

 survives him. E. EdgcUxMbe. 



Appendix. 



List of the late Captain Shelley's jjrincipal Publications. 



1870. 

 The Ibis. 



Letter on Elanus cooruleus, p. 149. 



Description of Two new Birds from Egypt, p. 44.5. 



1871. 

 The Ibis. 



Contributions to the Ornitliology of Egypt, pp. 38, 131, 309. 



1872. 

 The Ibis. 



With T. E. Buckley. 



Two months' Bird-folleclintr on the Gold Coast, p. 281. 



A llnndbook to tlio liirds of Egypt. 



