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Regt., serving under Lord Napier ; on the 1 st of August, 
1862, he transferred to the 62nd Foot Regt., being made 
Lieutenant on the 24th of November, 1863, and promoted 
to Captain on the 7 th of February, 1876. He left the 
service in 1881, after serving over fifteen years in India, and 
lived on retirement at East Wickham House, Welling, Kent, 
moving to Wimbledon Park in 1916. 
For many years he came to the Bird Room at the Natural 
History Museum and made most careful and excellent 
drawings and sketches of birds with their natural sur¬ 
roundings. 
He worked through every species of the Game Birds and 
the Ducks, and at the time of his death was engaged on the 
Corvidae. We hear that his drawings have all been left to 
the Zoological Society. Major Jones was elected a member 
of the Union in 1900. 
XIX.— Notices of recent Ornithological Publications. 
Bartsch on the Birds of the Tortugas. 
[The Bird-rookeries of the Tortugas. By Paul Bartsch. Smithsonian 
Keport for 1917, pp. 469-500, 38 pis. Published 1919.] 
The Tortugas are the last of the long line of coral reefs 
and islands which string out in a westerly direction from 
the southern extremity of Florida into the Gulf of Mexico, 
and have long been renowned for the numbers of sea-birds 
visiting and breeding on them. The first ornithologist who 
visited them was J. J. Audubon in 1832. He has given us 
a most vivid account of his observations and experiences in 
his Ornithological Biography, portions of which are re¬ 
printed in the present paper. O 11 one of the islands, 
Loggerhead Key, is the Marine Biological Laboratory of 
the Carnegie Institution, at which most of the recent work 
on birds, especially that of Messrs. Watson and Lashley 
(vide Ibis, 1916, p. 191), has been conducted. The most 
interesting island of the group is Bird Key, where, out of 
