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lie left to the South London Botanical Institute, founded 

 and endowed by himself. 



Hume died at his own house, The Chalet, Kingswood 

 Road, Upper Norwood, at the age of 82. 



Tlie following are the titles of his princi[)al separate 

 works on Birds : — 



1869-1870. JNIy Serap-Book, or Rough Notes on Indian Oology and 



Ornilliology. 

 1873-1875. Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds. 



1874. The Indian Ornithological Collector's Vade Mecuni. 



1878. A revised List of the Birds of Teuasserini. Willi 



W. Davison. 



1879. A rough tentative List of the Birds of India. 

 1879-1880. The Game ]>irds of India, Burniah, and Ceylon. With 



C. II. T. Mahsiiall. 



Besides these and his numerous papers in ^ The Ibis,^ 

 Hume was Editor of (and priiieipal writer in) an Ornitho- 

 logical Journal called ' Stray Feathers.^ Of this eleven 

 volumes were published at Calcutta, 1873-1899, to which 

 a twelfth volume and General Index were added by 

 Mr. C. Chubb in 1899. 



XXXV. — Notices of recent Ornitliologicul Puljlications. 



rContiuued from p. 552.] 

 89. ' The Aiik: 



[The Auk. A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology. Vol. x.xix. Nos. 1, 

 2, 3 (January to July, 1912).] 



In these numbers we may first mention two papers of 

 considerable importance as regards Nomenclature. Mr. W. 

 Stone discusses '^ Vroeg's Catalogue'' and decides that it 

 hardly falls within the binomial system, though he considers 

 that the ' Adumbratiunculse' attributed to Pallas, and now 

 known to be attached to three copies of the " Catalogue," stand 

 on a different footing. Mr. Rhoads adds to Dr. Riciunond's 

 list of papers by Rafinesque ('Auk,' 1909) two from the 

 ' Kentucky Gazette,' representing his best work. If such 

 publication is to be accepted, the genus Hydrocltelidon, vvould 



