APPENDIX II 



Although the following extracts do not perhaps pretend 

 to the interest of what has gone before, they seem worth 

 giving, as showing how the ruling passion was never laid 

 aside, never allowed to grow rusty, even amid apparently the 

 most unfavourable surroundings. London itself was made by 

 the enthusiasm of this naturalist a place of daily ornithological 

 interest ; while, on every little trip into the country, he takes 

 notes, even of the most familiar birds, with just as much care 

 as though engaged on the exploration of an unknown land. 

 Thus he records the observation of no fewer than thirty- 

 one species of birds on a single drive from Windsor to 

 Sunningdale. 



London 



November /\tli, 1881. Very waini, showery day. Went round to 

 Den * in the morning, and did some work at my Birds of North- 

 amptonshire. Had visits there from Verner and Gunther, who talked 

 much of choughs {Fregilus graculus) observed near St. Davids, and 

 say that they seemed to feed almost entirely on insects of the gnat 

 {Tipuld) family. 



November ^th. Went in the morning to Zoological Gardens 

 specially to see my Spanish bear, which is quite blind, but seems 

 healthy (very different in looks from a young bear from Russia which 



• So Lovrl Lilford called his rooms in Tenlerdeii Street, at the time tlic meeting- 

 place of the members of the British Ornithologists' Union. 



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