422 Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalas Id. 
in the British Museum, whilst others were presented to his 
ornithological friends, particularly to Mr. John Gould and the 
late Mr. G. B. Gray*. The ^Enterpriser reached England in 
May 1855; but during her stay in China on her way home, the 
hot climate greatly affected Mr. Adams, and a severe attack 
of inflammation of the lungs nearly cost him his life. After 
two months’ entire rest he next prepared himself to pass 
his examination as full Surgeon, and being duly gazetted to 
that rank, was appointed to the steam-sloop ‘ Hecla,’ and 
joined that vessel at Devonport in November 1855. In May 
1856 she was ordered to the west coast of Africa; and though 
with a presentiment in his own mind that his health would 
not stand the climate, Mr. Adams did not shrink from his 
duty. His fears, however, were but too well grounded. 
Scarcely a month after the Hecla’s ’ arrival at Sierra Leone 
he was compelled to be invalided on shore whilst the ship 
made a cruise of three weeks ; but on her return to that port 
he was found so much worse that he w^as again conveyed on 
board, with a view to his immediate return to England. 
This, however, was not to be ! Only a day or two later an 
attack of typhus proved rapidly fatal in his already emaciated 
condition ; and the remains of this able medical ofiicer and 
accomplished naturalist were interred in the cemetery at 
Sierra Leone, with military honours, the Governor and the 
whole garrison attending.”— Edd.] 
O Blue-throated Warbler. Cyanemia suecica (Linn.). 
Soo-kuk, Eski. 
On the 5th of June I met with seven of these birds near 
the redoubt, feeding about some willow-bushes. They were 
very wild, and it was with some difficulty that I procured a 
specimen. 
I could not find them afterwards ; and the natives were evi¬ 
dently not well acquainted with them. 
[We have not been able to trace Dr. Adams’s specimen, 
which is greatly to be regretted, as no other instance of a 
bird of this genus having been found on the American con¬ 
tinent is on record.] 
[* Mr. Gray dedicated Colymbus adamsi (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 167, to the 
commemoration of Mr. Adams’s labours in ornithology.—Eon.] 
