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of steel, he found time to make periodical excursions on the 

 continent, at first to Holland, France, Germany, Denmark, Nor- 

 way, and Heligoland, and thence to more distant countries, as 

 Kussia, Greece, and Asia Minor, eventually going as far south 

 as the Cape of Good Hope, and as far west as the United States 

 of America. 



In the summer of 1875, in company with Mr. J. A. Harvie 

 Brown, he undertook a journey to the valley of the Lower 

 Petchora in North-Eastern Kussia, for the purpose of discovering, 

 if possible, the breeding-haunts of such birds as the Grey Plover, 

 Little Stint, Knot, Curlew Sandpiper, and Sanderling ; and having 

 found the eggs of the two first-named species (subsequently figured 

 in * The Ibis'), he started two years later with Capt. Wiggins, and 

 penetrated still further east to the valley of the Yenesei in Siberia, 

 in hope of further oological discoveries. The accounts which 

 he published of these journeys in his two volumes, * Siberia in 

 Europe' and 'Siberia in Asia' (both now out of print), are 

 amongst the most entertaining and instructive narratives of 

 travel and natural history which have been written in the present 

 generation.* 



In the earlier of these two volumes he gave an account of a 

 visit to Heligoland and his meeting with the veteran ornithologist 

 Heinrich Gatke, whose now famous work on the Birds of that 

 remarkable island f is by this time in the hands of every 

 naturalist. 



The ornithological results of these two expeditions induced 

 him to turn his attention more closely than he had previously 

 done to the unexplored parts of Northern Asia, where it was 

 thought that time would reveal the undiscovered breeding-haunts 

 of several birds known only as periodical visitors to the coasts of 

 Great Britain. To the birds of Japan, also, he paid particular 

 attention, and having, with the assistance of Capt. Blakiston 

 and other correspondents, formed an extensive collection of the 

 birds of that country and their eggs, he published a comprehensive 

 work, 'The Birds of the Japanese Empire,' which at once took 

 rank as the most authoritative work on the subject. In the 



* Outlines of these expeditions have been already given in the pages of 

 this Journal in reviews of the books named. See ' Zoologist,' 1881, pp. 75, 

 116> and 1883, p. 41. 



f See ' The Zoologist,' 1894, p. 363. 



