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Among his more important publications may be men¬ 
tioned : — 
Conspectus systematicus et geographicus Avium Euro- 
psearum. 1871. 
Le Faune illustree des Vertebres de la Belgique. Ser. ii. 
les Oiseaux. 4 vols., with 427 coloured plates. 
1876-1894. 
Synopsis Avium : nouveau manuel d’Ornithologie. 
2 vols., 16 col. pis. Brussels, 1899-1904. 8 vo. 
Les animaux nuisable de la Belgique (vertebres). 1 voh, 
illustrated. Brussels, 1903. 
Revue des dernier systemes ornithologiques et nouvelle 
classification proposee pour les oiseaux. Paris, 1891. 
Remarques sur POrnithologie de PEtat Independant du 
Congo. Annales du Musee du Congo, vol. i. 1905. 
He also contributed to Wytsman's ‘ Genera Avium 9 the 
monographs on the Pelecanidse, Musophagidse, and Bucero- 
tidse, and over a hundred other communications to various 
scientific journals. He was a good artist, and most of the 
illustrations of his various works were prepared by himself. 
Max Furbringer. 
The news of the death of Prof. Max Furbringer, which 
occurred at Heidelberg on 6 March, 1920, has only recently 
reached us, probably owing to the difficulty of seeing the 
German Scientific Journals during the past two years. 
Prof. Furbringer was born at Wittenberg in 1848, and was 
therefore in his 75th year at the time of his death. He 
early devoted himself to the study of the anatomy of the 
Vertebrates, and after holding various minor teaching posts, 
was successively Professor of Anatomy at the Universities 
of Amsterdam, Jena, and Heidelberg, where he succeeded 
his master, Carl Gegenbaur, in 1901, and where he remained 
for the rest of his life. 
His great work, 4 Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und 
Systematik der Vogel zugleich ein Beitragzur Anatomieder 
Stiitz- und Bewegungsorgane/ was published at Amsterdam 
