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Gurney) iu British Guiana^ previously to which the habitat 

 of this species was unknown ; he also obtained specimens o£ 

 Riker's Pointed-tail (^Berlepschia rikeri Ridgway), which was 

 previously known only from Santarem in Brazil. McConnell 

 described two new forms from British Guiana, Neopipo 

 helence and Rhynchocyclus olivaceus guianensis, in the Bulletin 

 of the Club (vol. xxvii. 1911 , p. 105) ; the types of these are 

 in his collection. 



McConnell had for some time been preparing a list of the 

 species in his collection, giving the localities where the 

 specimens had been obtained, with the object of throwing 

 some light on the distribution of the birds in that portion of 

 South America. The manuscript is well advanced towards 

 completion, and it is intended to publish it in book form in 

 the near future. C. C. 



Albert Charles Ludwig Gotthilp Gunther. 



Dr. GiJNTHER, who was for so many years Keeper of Zoology 

 in the British Museum, died on February the 1st last, in his 

 84th year. He was the son of Friedrich Gotthilf Gunther, 

 Estates Bursar of Mohringen, and was born at Esslingen, 

 iu Wurttemberg, October 3, 1830. He was educated at 

 Tubingen, where he took his Ph.D. in 1852, and also at 

 Bonn and Berlin Universities. He qualified as a medical 

 man, doing part of his work at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 

 in London, and taking a medical degree at Tiibingen in 

 1862, and although he had a door-plate on his residence at 

 Surbiton, he did little to gain a practice, as he was already 

 deeply interested in zoology and was working at the 

 British Museum, where he was appointed on the staff in 

 1857, and rose in 1875 to be Keeper of the Zoological 

 Department, a post which he held until he retired at the 

 age of 65 in 1895. 



Dr. Giiuther's most enduring fame rests on the immense 

 amount of systematic work which he did among the lower 

 vertebrates. The Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum 

 in eight volumes is a monument of erudition and research, 



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