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THE ORNITHOLOGIST. 



Sand-martin (Cotyle riparia) . — Bather uncommon; I only 

 know of one small colony. 



Goldfinch (Carduelis elegans) . — Resident here. Last spring 

 I saw about twenty of them mobbing a pair of Jays. 



Siskin (Chrysomitris spinus). — In winter flocks of twenty 

 to forty are met feeding on alder berries ; in spring they pair 

 and visit orchards and gardens. The song is monotonous. 

 When feeding they are very quiet and apt to be overlooked, 

 but allow an approach to within a few yards. 

 (To be continued.) 



OBITUARY. 



The Late Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



All lovers of nature have felt a deep sorrow in the loss they have sus- 

 tained by the death of the above gentleman, and, in his particular line, a loss 

 that cannot be replaced. It is not often that a rich man will undertake 

 a long, trying and perilous journey of many hundreds of miles to find 



Barrauds, Ltd., 203, Oxford Street, London. 



a clutch of eggs not previously discovered. This journey he undertook, 

 sleighing through hundreds of miles of snow, and in almost continual 

 darkness, to distant Siberia, and, though he did not succeed in his object, 

 yet many interesting facts new to natural history -were discovered, and 



