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they are known to the writer) which concludes this notice. 
On the death of his uncle the Marquis of Tweed dale, 
who was for many years the distinguished President 
of the Zoological Society, Wardlaw-Ramsay inherited 
the vast collection of birds formed by that nobleman. 
This the inheritor generously presented to the British 
Museum (Natural History), on condition that a set of 
duplicate specimens was to be sent to the Edinburgh 
Museum. He also handed over the very valuable ornitho¬ 
logical library, which came to him with the collections, to 
the Museum, on condition it was placed in the bird-room for 
the use of the officers and students working there. It is 
now known as the Tweeddale library. In 1881 he edited 
and revised a memorial volume entitled 4 The Ornithological 
Works of Arthur 9th Marquis of Tweeddale/ a quarto of 
760 pages. For several years past Colonel Wardlaw-Ramsay 
had been engaged upon the preparation of a concise handy 
volume—an ornithological Baedeker—on the species and 
races of the Birds of Europe and northern Africa for the 
use of travellers and others. Though this book was nearing 
completion, yet a considerable amount of work remained to 
be done ere it was ready for the press, and shortly before he 
passed away he requested that the manuscript should 
be handed unconditionally to the writer of this notice, who 
hopes to arrange for its completion and publication in due 
course. 
List of Papers. 
Description of a new species of Woodpecker ( Gecinus erytkropygius) 
from British Burmah. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pp. 212-213. 
Ornithological Notes from the district of Karen-nee, Burmah. Ibis, 1875, 
pp. 348-853. 
On an undescribed species of Nuthatch ( Sitta magnd) and another bird 
(Orocetes erythrogaster) from Karen-nee. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, 
p. 677. 
Notes on some Burmese Birds. Ibis, 1877, pp. 452-473. 
A Synopsis of the genus Pomatorhinus. Ibis, 1878, pp. 129-145. 
Description of a new Oriole from Borneo (Oriolus consobrinus). Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 709. 
