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wanted only three days of completing his 44th year. After 
studying Medical Sciences at the Universities of Berlin, 
Vienna, and Munich, Parrot obtained the degree of M.D.in 
1894, and settled as a medical doctor in the latter city. 
From his earliest youth he professed a strong taste for 
Natural History, especially Ornithology, and all of his spare 
time was given to his favourite science. In 1897, Carl 
Parrot founded the “ Ornithologische Verein Miinchen,” 
which, a few years afterwards, was transformed into the 
Ornithological Society of Bavaria, and he remained its 
President up to the time of his decease. The main object 
of this organization was the study of the distribution and 
migration of birds in the Bavarian kingdom, although general 
ornithological questions were by no means neglected, as may 
be seen by referring to the various volumes of the f Jahres- 
bericht ’ (later f Verhandlungen') of that Society. It is 
due to the untiring energy and never-ceasing interest of 
Dr. Parrot that Bavaria is now provided with a staff of 
nearly one thousand observers, by whom notices about the 
appearance and movements of migratory birds are regularly 
sent in. In later years Parrot took considerable interest 
in systematic Ornithology, devoting his studies principally 
to the Palsearctic region. Besides, he published an important 
memoir upon the birds of the Island of Banka and the Deli 
district of Sumatra in the Transactions of the Bavarian 
Academy of Sciences in 1907. The winter of 1909-10 he 
spent in the Island of Corsica, whence he brought back a 
considerable collection of birds. The report on the results 
of his exertions is being published in von Tschusi's f Orni- 
thologisches Jahrbuch.* Carl Parrot not only was a most 
painstaking and accurate writer, but also a thoroughly 
trained field-ornithologist, who knew how to find and how 
to watch the birds in their haunts. His loss is mourned 
by a widow and two infant children, as well as by many 
friends, both at home and abroad. In the Ornithological 
Society of Bavaria the premature death of Dr. Parrot creates 
a blank which it will be impossible to fill.—C. E. H. 
