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death is nothiDg less than a national misfortune, as the 

 first published volume of his ' Birds of South Africa ' 

 proves that whoever shall attempt to complete the work 

 will have no easy task to rival the volume which our friend 

 had written before his death. Colonel Northcott had 

 made but one collection of birds in the Hinterland of the 

 Gold Coast, and was full of enthusiam for future work. 

 He was ordered off to South Africa on the outbreak of the 

 Boer war, and had hardly reached his post on Lord Methuen's 

 Staff, when he was killed at the Modder River. 



(Signed) R. BOWDLER SHARPE, 



x Editor. 



October 1st, 1900. 



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