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Obituary. 
XXXI .—Obituary. 
Mr. A. D. Millar. 
It is with much regret that we learn of the death, on May 
10th last, of Mr. Alfred Duchesne Millar, who has been a 
Colonial Member of this Union since 1905. He was born 
at Durban on July 30th, 1858, the son of the Hon. Mr. J. 
Millar, member of the Natal Legislative Council. He was 
educated in Natal, and spent the whole of his life there, 
never, we believe, having visited England or even Europe. 
Millar took up the Law as a profession, and was well- 
known in Durban, where he practised, as a man of the 
strictest integrity and a very sound lawyer. For many 
years he was Vice-President of the Natal Law Society. All 
his spare time was devoted to sport and natural history. 
He was an extraordinarily good observer, and it was a most 
interesting experience to accompany him for a walk in the 
“ bush/' when he would recognise and name every bird 
and insect met with. He was also a very expert taxi¬ 
dermist, and made excellent bird-skins ; his collection of 
insects was a delight to look at, every specimen being most 
neatly prepared and mounted. 
While engaged on the volumes on the f Birds of South 
Africa/ the writer of this notice was in constant corres¬ 
pondence with Millar, who helped him with the loan of many 
rare birds which were not represented in the collection 
of the South African Museum, and furnished him with 
numerous notes on the life-histories of the birds of Natal. 
Millar published very little under his own name, and I can 
find only two short papers of his in the Journal of the South 
African Ornithologists' Union. These are entitled, “ Orni¬ 
thological Notes from Natal," and “ On the Nidification of 
the Striped Kingfisher (.Halcyon chelicuti)” He took a 
great deal of interest in the Durban Museum, to which both 
he and his brother Harold contributed largely. He was a 
member of the Museum Committee from 1895, and its 
