The Humming Bird. 131 



Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, ediied by M. Adrien 

 Dolfus. Vingt-deuxième année. Paris, 1892. 



MeMOBIÀ QUE LA SeCRETARIA LE FOMENTO DE LA llCPUBLICA DE 



Guatemala présenta a la Assemblea Legislatiya en sus 

 sessiones ordinarias de 4892. Guatemala, 189-2. 



Recompensas obtenidas por la Republica de Guatemala en 

 la Exposicion universal de Paris, 1889. Guatemala. 



RULLETIN OF THE UNITED-STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, N° 21. 



Washington. 



The Sporting Goods Review. London, 1892. 



La Nuova Citta America ed il R prinzapulka nel Nicaragua, 

 by Désiré PecLor. Estratto dal « Cosmos di Guido Cora », 

 Vol. X, 1889-1891. 



Exposé sommaire des Voyages et Travaux géographiques au 

 Nicaragua dans le cours du xix c siècle, par Désiré Pector, 

 « Annales Economiques ». Paris, 1891. 



Aperçu des Principales Communications relatives a la lin- 

 guistique faites au Congrès International des Américanistes, 

 1890, par Désiré Pector, « Revue Linguistique». Paris, 1890. 



José Triana, Notice historique, par Désiré Pector. « Archi- 

 ves de la Société Américaine de France ». Paris, 1892, etc., 

 etc. 



OBITUARY 



1891. — September 2 d , August Edler von Pelzen died 

 in Vienna, aged 66. — August Edler von Pelzen was 

 born at Prague on the 10 th of March 1825. Since his earlier 

 youth, he was devoted to Natural History. First he studied 

 Law and practised in the Vienna Courts. In the beginning 

 of 1851, he obtained the place of Assistant to Doctor 

 C. Diesing, with whom he remained until the death of the 

 Doctor, in 1867. 



In 1 869, he was appointed Custos of the Ornithologieal 

 and Mammalogical Collections, which had been under his 

 care since 1852. 



His principal works are : Zur Ornithologie Brasjliens publis- 

 hed in 1871. Birds of the Novara Expedition, and his Ornis, 

 Vindoleonensis. His other memoirs were published in va- 

 rious scientific journals. 



He was a learned and modest man, highly appreciated by 

 those who knew him. 



1891. — December 6 th , Dom Pedro d'Alcantara, the late 

 Emperor of Brazil, died in Paris, at the early age of 66. — 

 Dom Pedro was born the 2 d of December 1825. He was only 

 six years old when his father abdicated in his favour. In 

 1840, he was crowned Emperor. 



Since that date, he reigned peacefully, and Brazil did 

 progress immensely during that time. 



