MEMOIR OF THE LATE HENRY SEEBOHM. 13 



prosecution of this undertaking, he employed collectors and 

 purchased specimens from every available and reliable source, 

 determined to make his work as complete as possible. These 

 collections, with the greatest liberality, he subsequently presented 

 to the British Museum, and still further benefited science by 

 writing one of the volumes of the great ' Catalogue of Birds ' — 

 that containing the Thrushes and Warblers — and by arranging 

 and cataloguing the unrivalled collection of eggs, to which he 

 was a munificent donor. 



From a pictorial point of view, few more beautiful works 

 have been issued from the press (if we except those of Gould and 

 Elliot) than his quarto monograph of the Plovers, Sandpipers, 

 and Snipes. In this he figured all the most remarkable species 

 of which no adequate illustrations had been previously pub- 

 lished, and furnished analytical keys to the genera and species.* 



To enumerate the many important papers on ornithological 

 subjects which he contributed to ' The Ibis,' ' The Zoologist,' 

 and to the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Societ}',' would require 

 the preparation of a list that would fill several pages. It must 

 suffice if we remind our readers of his contributions to this 

 Journal only. 



Dating from the commencement of the Third Series (1877), 

 we find him credited with the following communications : — 



Blue Eggs of the Cuckoo, 1880, p, 361. 



Field Notes on the Reed and Marsh Warblers, 1880, p. 377. 



A Visit to the Colony of Spoonbills near Amsterdam, 1880, p. 457. 



On the Occurrence of the Rusty Grackle and Pallas's Grey Shrike in 

 Wales, 1882, p. 109. 



On a New Species of British Wren, Troglodytes hirtmsis, 1884, p. 333. 



On the Occurrence of the White-billed Diver, Colymbus adamsi, on the 

 British Coasts, ]885, p. 144. 



On the geuus Hamatopus, or Oystercatchers, 1886, p. 41. 



The Black-throated Wheatear, Saxicola stapazina, and its Allies, 1886, 

 p. 193. 



On the Pheasant of St. Helena, 1886, p. 225. 



On the Breeding of Arctic Birds in Scotland, 1887, p. 21. 



Birds' Nests and Eggs, 1887, p. 137. 



Turdus migratorius in the British Islands, 1891, p. 219. 



A Comparative List of the Birds of Heligoland and those of the British 

 Islands, 1891, p. 261. 



* For a detailed notice of this work see ' The Zoologist,' 1888, p. 197, 



