298 APPENDIX II 



The two months following upon his cruise in the Mediter- 

 ranean in this year, Lord Lilford spent partly in London, 

 partly at Neuenahr, whither he went to take the waters. 



The first entry in the following extracts finds him just 

 returned. 



Dover. London 



May ic^th. M S reports my bear at Zoological Gardens 



as being very ill. 



Letters from old Manuel announcing the finding of a lanner's 

 nest in the Coto de Donana with three young birds and an egg. 

 Female bird shot and found to be minus one leg. Country so 

 dry that no flamingoes are to be found. 



Gave Dresser a pair of Audouin's gulls. 



London 



May 26th. Agreed to buy the great auk and egg of C 



for ^300. 



Irby tells me that Mcna has obtained Totamts stagnati/is near Malaga. 



Dresser has successfully blown the eggs of Melizophilus sardus. 

 I sent the two snakes up to the Zoological Gardens. 



May 21th. Invested in a fireproof safe for the better 

 preservation of the three great auk's eggs. 



George Hunt tells me that in March he killed 500 woodpigeons 

 near Gidding in little over a week. 



Windsor and Sunningd.\le 

 May T,\st. Drove up the Long Walk to Cumberland Lodge; 

 the beeches in great beauty and rhododendrons in full ijloom, the 

 young fern and many rabbits adding to the beauty of our drive to 

 Sunningd.ile. Noticed the following birds : — Blackbird, song-thrush, 

 missel-thrush, swallow, house-martin, sand-martin, swift, rook, jackdaw, 

 nightingale, blackcap, lesser whitcthroat, chiffchafT, willow-wren, wood- 

 wren, robin, wren, great tit, coal tit, starling, skylark, pied wagtail, 

 yellow-hammer, stone-chat, stock-dove, chaffinch, common sparrow, 

 tree-creeper, pheasant, heron, mallard. 



