602 Obituary. 



103. Van Oort on a new Bird-of-Paradise. 



[On a new Bird-of-Paradise. By Dr. E. D. Van Ourt. Notes Leyd. 

 Mus. xxviii. p. 1 (1906).] 



Heer Van Oort, who has succeeded Dr. Finsch in the care 

 of the birds of the Ley den Museum, describes, under the 

 name of Neoparadisea ruysi, a new Paradise-bird related to 

 Paradisea and Diphyllodes, from a specimen presented to 

 the Museum by Mr. T. II. Ruys. It was obtained by native 

 hunters in 1905, near Warsembo, on the west coast of the 

 Bay of Geelvink. 



Heer Ruys also brought home a skin of the rare Diphyl- 

 lodes gulielmi-tertii. 



XXXIV. — Obituary. 



Canon Tristram, Dr. Jean Cabanis, and Dr. Victor Patio. 



With deep regret we record the death of the Rev. Henry 

 Baker Tristram, F.R.S., Canon of Durham, one of the 

 founders and original members of the British Ornithologists' 

 Union. Canon Tristram was well known as an Author, a 

 Traveller, a Naturalist, and an Antiquarian. It is, of course, 

 to his work in Natural History that we shall mainly allude 

 on the present occasion. 



Canon Tristram was born on May 11th, 1822, at Egling- 

 ham, near Alnwick, the large country parish of which his 

 father, Dr. H. B. Tristram, was at that time Vicar. He 

 was educated at Durham School, and afterwards at Lincoln 

 College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1844, taking a 

 second cla^s in Classics. 



In 1845 Tristram was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of 

 Exeter, and Priest in the following year, having been appointed 

 Curate of Morton Bishop. But, shewing somewhat alarming 

 signs of a weak chest, he was ordered abroad, and passed 

 two years (1847-1819) as naval and military chaplain in 

 Bermuda. In the latter year he was nominated Rector of 

 Castle Eden, in Durham, and in 18G0 Master of Greatham 



