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[d’urban 
Entomological Society of London for thirty years from 1865, 
and was admitted a Fellow of the Linnean Society by Mr. 
Bentham, June 1, 1865, but resigned in 1900. 
Mr. D’Urban resides near Exeter, on property inherited 
from his maternal grandfather, Mr. Samuel Mitchell, of 
Hope Vale, Island of Grenada, West Indies, and Newport 
House, near Exeter. 
The late John Gatcombe (1819-87), of Stonehouse, 
Plymouth, although never having actually published a 
separate work on ornithology, was nevertheless so great an 
ornithological worker that no work on British ornithology 
can pass him over without a notice. D’Urban and Mathew 
in their Birds of Devon indeed call him 4 4 the prince of modern 
Devonshire ornithologists.” He appears, however, to have 
been too diligent and conscientious an observer to care 
about book-writing. From 1851 to 1855 he contributed to 
the Naturalist , and from the latter date up to his death to 
the Zoologist J and in addition he supplied a mass of informa- 
tion to D’Urban and Mathew’s Birds of Devon in the form 
of letters and notes ; the book is, in fact, dedicated to Gat- 
combe and three other observers, who are stated to have 
largely contributed to the work. He is stated to have also 
been a capable ornithological artist. He obtained many 
rare birds near Plymouth, notably a pair of Alpine Accentors 
{vide Yarrell, i. p. 297), and is estimated to have done 44 more 
for the ornithology of the county than any other observer 
1 1855-72. Occurrence of scarce Birds in the Neighbourhood of Plymouth. 
{Zoologist, 1855, p. 4705; 1857, p. 5593; 1862, p. 7848; 1867, p. 557; 
1870, pp. 2026-7 ; 1872, p. 2940.) 
1859-87. Ornithological Notes from Devon and Cornwall, 51 contributions. {Op. cit., 
1859, pp. 6376-8 ; 1863, p. 8832 ; 1866, pp. 132-40 ; 1871, p. 2638 ; 1873, 
pp. 3392-400, 3442-6, 3466-8, 3562-6, 3628-32, 3716-20, 3783-8; 1874, 
pp. 3826-9, 3909-12, 3943-5, 4102-5, 4226-9, 4253-5; 1875, pp. 4370-73, 
4448-51, 4490-91, 4568-9, 4635-6; 1876, pp. 4783-5, 4823-4, 4901-3, 
4991-3, 5028-30, 5109-10, 5145-7; 1877, pp. 44-7, 162-4, 278-83, 493-5; 
1878, pp. 52-5, 249-51, 430-33; 1879, pp. 112-16, 205-8, 418-20; 1880, pp. 
46-9, 247-51 ; 1881, pp. 50-54, 195-8 ; 1882, pp. 62-6, 456-9 ; 1883, pp. 
165-7, 419-22; 1884, pp. 53-6; 1885, pp. 21-3, 375-8; 1887, pp. 375-9.) 
1872. Ornithological Notes made in the neighbourhood of Plymouth during February 
to August 1872, 6 pts. {Op. cit. pp. 3011-14, 3049-52, 3099-101, 3136-8, 
3166-9, 3258-60.) 
