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of his most valuable work appeared. It is estimated that in this 
publication alone one hundred and forty communications from 
his pen appeared, the most important of which were the “Notes 
on a ‘Catalogue of the AccApitres in the British Museum,’ by 
K. Bowdler Sharpe,” also his Notes on the Birds collected in 
Natal and the Transvaal Republic by Mr. Thomas Ayres. He 
was elected an Honorary Foreign Member of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union at its formation in 1683, and a Member of 
the Natural History Society of Moscow, in recognition of his 
services to ornithology, in 1888. To the ‘Proceedings’ and 
‘Transactions’ of the Zoological Society of London, of which lie 
was elected a Fellow in 1852, Mr. Gurney was also an occasional 
contributor. Mention may bo made of his papers on Circus ico/ji , 
1’roc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 823 ; Polyboru s i /incur, 1878, p. 230; 
“On the Immature Plumage of Dnjotriorcliis specfabili* (Schleg),” 
1880, p. G21 ; and “On the Geographical Distribution of Huhua 
nipalensis ,” 1884, p. 558. 
In the year 186!) the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society 
was established, and at its first monthly •meeting, on the 27th 
April, Mr. Gurney was elected an Honorary Member, and con- 
tributed to its ‘Transactions’ the following papers, besides many 
briefer communications, all however of some special interest : — 
180!). May 25th. Stray Notes on Norfolk and Suffolk 
Mammalia. 
1874. August 25th. Extracts from the Note-book of the late 
Miss Anna Gurney, of Northrepps. 
1886. March 30th. Notes on a Female Specimen of Pemis 
apioorus. 
1889. January 29th. Notes on the Food of some North 
American Birds of Prey. 
Of separate works, Mr. Gurney produced in 1864 Part I. of 
“ A Descriptive Catalogue of the Raptorial Birds in the Norfolk 
and Norwich Museum,” this, however, was never continued in the 
form originally intended; but in 1384, on the completion of his 
notes on Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of the Acciptres in the 
British Museum, he published ‘ A List of the Diurnal Birds of 
Prey, with references and annotations,’ which contained a complete 
“ Record of Specimens Preserved in the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum.” The list of the Nocturnal Birds of Prey, although 
