2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



In 1866 he went to Lapland and Sweden, and returned 

 to Sweden in the two following years. 



In 1869 he visited Turkey and Greece, along with Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes, on a collecting trip, the results of which are 

 detailed, under joint authorship with his friend and com- 

 panion, in the "Ibis" for the year 1871 one of these 

 delightful accounts of good field work which graced the 

 earlier volumes of that magazine. 



He made four different expeditions into Africa for 

 sporting purposes to the Gold Coast in 1872, accompanied 

 by Captain Shelley ; to Matabeleland, in pursuit of birds, in 

 1873, with Frank and William Gates ; to Amaswaziland in 

 1876; and lastly to Kilimanjaro in 1888-89, with his 

 greatest friend, Guy Dawnay (M.P. for the North Riding of 

 Yorkshire from 1882 to 1885), whom he had met first in 

 South Africa in 1873. 



In 1882 he paid a first visit to New Brunswick, in com- 

 pany with his cousin, Mr. Charles Akroyd, and went there 

 again in 1884. In 1893 he went on a sporting expedition 

 with Akroyd to the Rockies. A grand series of his trophies 

 of all these several expeditions have ever since adorned the 

 hall and staircase of the lovely house in Inverness. 



He became the lessee of the shootings of Gordonbush, 

 Brora, in Sutherland, and occupied these from 1870 till 



1373- 



In 1874 he married Miss Reed, only child of Ellerington 



Reed, of Gordonbush ; and since he returned from his last 

 African expedition he may be said to have resided princi- 

 pally in Scotland. 



In 1885 he purchased the small Highland estate of 

 Rossal, on the River Cassley, in Sutherland, but he resold it 

 two years later, because he did not find the sporting or the 

 residential amenities of the place up to his expectations. 

 He then built the handsome house in Inverness, in which he 

 had resided as his home till his death, and which was named 

 Rossal after his previous possession. 



On the River Helmsdale Buckley broke the record of 

 salmon killed by rod single-handed in the North of Scotland, 

 the previous record having been twenty-one fish to one rod 

 on the Thurso. His record on the Helmsdale was twenty- 



