322 Obituary. 



Frederick Vavasour McConnell. 



We regret to have to record the death, on January the 26th, 

 of Mr. McConnell ; he had been in indifferent health for 

 some time, and underwent an operation in London on 

 January the 17th, from the effects of which he never 

 recovered. 



Born in 1868, he was the second son of the late Mr. John 

 McConnell, who for many years was resident in British 

 Guiana. 



Y. V. McConnell was an ardent naturalist, and when in 

 British Guiana did not confine himself to the coast lands, 

 but made several expeditions into the interior, and he was 

 one of the first to ascend Mount Roraima. This he did in 

 company with Mr. J. J. Quelch and Mr. C. A. Lloyd in 

 1894, spending three days and two nights on the plateau at 

 the summit. 



He made a second expedition to Mount Roraima, with 

 Mr. J. J. Quelch, in the months of August, September, and 

 October, 1898. During this journey a collection of zoo- 

 logical specimens was made which furnished several new 

 species in various branches of zoology, and the following new 

 forms were named after him : — Rhipidomys macconnelli, 

 Zonotrichia macconnelli, Oreophrynella macconnelli, Odonto- 

 peltis macconnelli, and Trechalea macconnelli. The collection 

 was presented to the Trustees of the British Museum and 

 deposited in the Department of Zoology. The various 

 groups were described by the officials of that institution, 

 and the report published in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society, Zoology (2) viii. 1900, pp. 51-76. 



McConnell, though interested in zoology generally, 

 directed his special attention to ornithology and became a 

 member of the B.O.U. in 1900 ; he restricted his collecting 

 area to the confines of British Guiana, where he had im- 

 portant interests. He made a good representative collection 

 of the avifauna, and placed on record several species not 

 previously known to occur in that Colony. It was he who 

 obtained an example of Jardine's Goshawk (Asturjai'dinei 



