The Irish Naturalist, 
March, 
he realised this wish, and settled at Ardnaree, Monkstown, 
where the remainder of his life was spent. 
In August, 191 1 — at eighty -two — he went on his last 
exploring tour, when he and Barrington together visited 
the chief bird-resorts of the North Mayo coast, including 
the scene of Ussher's welcome discovery — made only a 
month before — of a colony of Irish -breeding Fulmars. 
Though his interest in the ornithology of the West never 
flagged, southern birds now claimed a large share of his 
attention. To the Zoologist, British Birds, and this 
journal — as well as to the Field, he contributed various 
notes from Ardnaree, reporting occurrences of rare stragglers 
in Cos. Cork and Waterford, the best being the Blue -winged 
Teal (Querquedula discors), shot at Ballycottin in September, 
1910, which made a welcome addition to our list of American 
bird-visitors to Ireland. As a correspondent, his activity 
remained unabated to the end of his life, and the care with 
which he digested the contents of communications from his 
brother -ornithologists helped to make his memory a re- 
markable storehouse of facts. 
His death in his 87th year was the result of an accident 
sustained in his own house on the 12th of November, 1915. 
Only a few days before, he had written to express strong 
doubts as to the accuracy of a statement in the obituary 
notices of his friend Barrington in the November issues of 
this and another journal ; and further inquiry proved that 
he was quite right in thinking the statement erroneous. He 
had passed away before the correction could be published ; 
but his timely intervention prevented confusion on the 
subject from arising at a later date. 
Barrington's death (which occurred ten weeks before his 
own) had made him the last survivor of the original " Bird 
Committee," of whom he had, from the first, been the 
oldest in years ; and the vigour of mind and body that he * 
retained was a remarkable tribute to the soundness of his 
constitution, well sustained throughout life by active, 
regular, out -door habits. A man of quick, eager tempera- 
ment, he had much of that distrust for the " book -man," 
that marked Charles Waterton and other first -rank field 
