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suit the picture — marsh marigold, meadow-sweet, forget- 

 me-not, etc. ; white-fronted goose, one of a flock — flat 

 sea coast ; bernicle, I think, swimming — in foreground 

 sea, high mountains in background ; whooper, flock 

 on a wild highland loch ; Bewick's swan off a flat 

 coast ; pufiin, a group in full summer dress on steep 

 slope of short turf over sea ; cliff honeycombed with 

 burrows — rabbits, sea pinks ; razorbill, a black clift or 

 chalk cliff face, rows of birds — gulls indicated." 



"/ufy Ml, 1888. 

 " The angle of eye in teal is rather too acute." 



"August loth, 1888. 



" Is not the toe or oyster catcher in the water — 

 I mean the inner toe of right foot — a little too much 

 fore-shortened, and ought not the !bill to be rather 

 more yellow near the point .'' " 



" BounieiHOulh, Novcmba- lotli, 1888. 



" I have some floating ideas that I had rather not 

 have mentioned at present of bringing out a quarto work 

 of the birds of Spain. I should like to have about ten 

 or twelve full-page plates of characteristic Spanish species 

 as illustrations, namely bearded vultures, white-shouldered 

 eagle, booted eagle, blue-winged magpie, Irby's titmouse, 

 Andalucian short-toed lark, great bustard, black vulture, 



