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to make any long excursions abroad. II is first ornithological 
expedition was to Greece and Asia Minor; while in the summer 
of 1874, his collecting-ground was Northern Norway, whither lie 
was accompanied by Dr. R. Collett, of Christiania. In the latter 
year, Mr. J. A. Harvie- Brown, who had recently returned from 
Archangel and the Lower Dvvina, brought back valuable information 
respecting the land still further east; and in the early spring of 1875, 
he and Seebohm made an expedition to the valley of the Lower 
Petchofa, in North-eastern Russia, where they obtained eggs of the 
Grey Plover, the Little Stint, the Petchora Pipit, and other rare 
species. Accounts of this expedition appeared in ‘ The Ibis,’ and 
in Seebohm’s ‘Siberia in Europe.’ In 1877, Seebohm accompanied 
Captain Wiggins to the Yenesei, much further east, in true Siberia, 
and made some important collections which were described in 
‘The Ibis,’ and ‘Siberia in Asia.’ Several visits were also made 
to Heligoland, where the migrations of birds were studied under 
the auspices of the veteran ornithologist, Herr Giitke. Henceforward 
Seebohm devoted considerable attention to the subject of migration, 
and even made a trip in winter to South Africa, in order to obtain 
information suitable for his important quarto on ‘The Geographical 
Distribution of Plovers, Sandpipers, and Snipes.’ Before this, 
however, he had produced vol. v. of ‘The Catalogue of Birds in 
the British Museum,’ treating of the Thrushes and Warblers 
( Turdidie ), on which he was an acknowledged authority; while in 
1885, he completed his ‘History of British Birds, with Coloured 
Illustrations of their Eggs.’ These works were followed bv ‘ The 
Birds of the Japanese Empire,’ ’The Classification of Birds,’ and 
several minor treatises, not to enumerate many interesting papers 
in ‘ The Ibis,’ and elsewhere. It will be remembered that Seebohm 
contributed to these ‘ Transactions ’ a valuable abstract of Dr. A. 
Bunge’s observations on the birds of the Lena Delta, and another 
on Mr. Murdoch’s Report on the birds of Point Barrow, Alaska 
while in 1891, he delivered an excellent address, as President of 
this Society. Up to the spring of 1895 he was working with 
remarkable energy, but an attack of influenza, followed by congestion 
of the lungs, enfeebled his constitution, and although he managed 
