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birds, illustrating the type with charming little 

 pen and ink vignettes drawn either from life, 

 or from good pictures he had access to. The 

 buzzard here shown, drawn after Thorburn's 

 picture, is one of the illustrations of the MS ; 

 other illustrations in this book, are taken from 

 the same book. The beautiful and minute 

 handwriting, portions of which are shown in 

 some of the illustrations, written on folio 

 sheets, is striking enough in itself. The pages 

 are without blot or erasure, written with the 

 effortless precision which marked all his 

 drawings. When a small boy of eleven he 

 copied Doyle's frontispiece of Pinich so accu- 

 rately, that it might be mistaken for the 

 original leaf torn off ; and in a scientific mono- 

 graph on ''Owls," by Mr. W. P. Pycraft, 

 just published by the Linnean Society, will be 

 found other examples of the same exquisite 

 draughtmanship, done in Professor Lankes- 

 ter's laboratories at Oxford. This incom- 

 plete history of eagles and hawks, contains 

 many drawings as life-like and as accurate as 

 those here reproduced ; and the sketches not 

 fmished betray no sign of the amateur, though 

 begun when he was a boy. 



Several of his original sketches in water 

 colours are reproduced in these pages. The 



