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Obituary.



present review referring to the first volume, the only one as yet

published.


Mr. Thorburn has himself written the text, in which he

claims no originality for his observations on birds. Anyhow, enough

is written about each one for the reader to understand something of

the ways and habits of the birds, and those who are interested in

them and who have not the good fortune to possess Lord Lilford’s

“ Birds of the British Isles,” with Mr. Thorburn’s beautiful

coloured plates, would do well, if their purse is full enough, to acquire

the present publication. H. D. A.


[British Birds. Written and illustrated by A. THORBURN, F.Z.S. With

eighty plates in colour, showing over four hundred species. In four volumes.


LONGMANS, Green & CO., 37, Paternoster Row, London].



OBITUARY.



SIR ROLAND J. CORBET, B'R


The Editor has to record with sorrow, the death of his

nephew Sir Roland Corbet, Lieut. Coldstream Guards, who was

killed in action on the 15th of April. A member of our Society_

he was a keen and ever-interested observer of wild birds, and wrote

home that he had seen a Swallow flying over a canal at the front,

as early as the 25th of March. From his boyhood he had collected

books on British birds, nothing pleasing him more than to be given

any new publication on the subject. Without guile, a pure and fine

gentleman, valourous, yet shrinking with simplicity and diffidence

from all praise as a soldier of the King, he has laid down his life in

the service of his country. Wounded during the earlier stages of

the war, he went out once again to do his duty, only to fall with

many others. He was only twenty-two years old.



