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brate Fauna of Lakeland.' Suggested by, and following the 

 main lines of, Harvie-Brown and Buckley's series of faunas of 

 the Scottish areas, yet in manner of treatment, and in other 

 features, with a character of thorough originality, it forms per- 

 haps the finest faunal history that has ever been written on any 

 district within the British Islands. The natural history por- 

 tions of the two volumes of the 'Fur and Feather Series,' de- 

 voted respectively to the Partridge and the Grouse, were penned 

 by our departed friend in 1893, and that on the Red Deer in 1896. 

 The 'History of Fowling' (1897) was his latest and most volu- 

 minous book. In addition to these, Macpherson was responsible 

 for a portion of the letterpress in the ' Royal Natural History,' 

 he having supplied the account of the birds " from Corvidse to 

 Cserebidse." And similarly, in that fine work, ' British Birds, 

 their Nests and Eggs, by various well-known Authors,' he was 

 responsible for the Tubinares, which he described in his usual 

 luminous style. He wrote the chapter on Ornithology for the 

 Cumberland volume of the Victorian County Histories, but, alas ! 

 it will appear as posthumous work. It is understood that an 

 account of the avifauna of Skye, in which picturesque Hebridean 

 island his ancestral estate of Glendale is situated, was nearly 

 ready for the printer. 



Such solid literary labours did not by any means exhaust his 

 activity, for he contributed an immense amount of thoroughly 

 good matter to magazines and newspapers. Since he has resided 

 at Pitlochry he often furnished one of the excellent natural 

 history articles that appear each Tuesday in the ' Scotsman.' 



The Carlisle Museum in Tullie House has been more in- 

 debted to Macpherson than anyone else. The collection of birds 

 was his especial care, and most admirably it has been completed, 

 mostly with his own specimens, or those procured from friends. 



In concluding this brief and inadequate memoir of one who 

 stood far forward amongst British ornithologists, we may express 

 the confident hope that a memorial volume, for which ample 

 materials exist, may be forthcoming ere long. 



R. S. 





