xliv Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 
“In all his voyages and journeys, ornithology received Tristram’s chief 
attention. Among his discoveries may be especially mentioned that of a 
starling-like bird, named after him by Mr. Sclater, Amydrus Tristram, — 
peculiar to the gorge of the Kedron, and belonging to a genus previously 
thought to be purely Ethiopian. But his collection was not at all 
confined to specimens obtained by himself or his companions on his 
travels, extensive as these were; but comprehended the birds of the 
whole world, and formed one of the largest ever brought together by any 
private person. It was sold in his lifetime to the Free Public Museum of 
Liverpool.”* It was described in the Report of the Committee of that 
institution for 1896 as containing “ 20,000 specimens, referable to 6000 species, 
of which 150 are types.” ‘Tristram likewise amassed a large and valuable 
collection of birds’ eggs, which he sold to Mr. Philip Crowley, at whose death 
it passed by will into the Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 
Canon Tristram endeared himself to a wide circle of friends by the singular 
modesty and geniality of his nature, by his keen sense of humour, the great 
range of his acquirements in natural history, and the delightful flow of his 
conversation, in which he would draw upon his wide and varied experience 
in so many different countries. He celebrated his golden wedding in the 
spring of the year 1901. Two years later his wife died, and he himself, 
retaining his faculties to the end, passed away on March 8, 1906, at the ripe 
age of eighty-four. 
A Joe 
* MS. of Professor Newton. 
