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whicli he always had a special liking, while he had lost no 

 opiDortuuity of procuring all the specimens lie could obtain. 

 He intended to supj)lement his Catalogue in the 25th 

 volume of the Birds of the British Museum by an 

 illustrated monograph on the group, and with this idea 

 some 40 coloured plates by Mr. Keulemans had been 

 executed. Salvin^s untimely death, however, had put an 

 end to this project, and Godman^s first idea was to complete 

 the remainder of the plates and publish them with only a 

 fiew notes from the Catalogue. 



A vast amount of fresh material had in the meautime 

 come to hand in the various expeditions towards the South 

 Pole, and Mr. Rothscliild had also a very fine collection which 

 he most kindly placed at Godman's disposal, and this entailed 

 a thorough revision of the subject. This work is being- 

 issued in Parts, three of which, covering more than half the 

 ground, have already appeared. 



From very early days Godman exhibited an intense love of 

 sport, which shewed itself in the varied pursuits of huntiug, 

 fishing, shooting, and stalking. As a boy he kept a pack of 

 beagles, and later a pack of harriers, with which he hunted 

 in the counties of Surrey and Sussex. He was a constant 

 follower of Lord LeconfiekVs hounds, as well as of several 

 other well-known packs. After hunting, few sports appealed 

 more to him than stalking : his first experiences were in the 

 island of Lewis, wdiere he shared a shooting with three other 

 friends ; he afterwards rented the forest of Killelan on the 

 west coast of Ross-shire, which proved a good sporting- 

 place, but it w^as in Glenavou forest, which he rented for 

 eigrhteen years from the Duke of Richmond, that the best 

 all-round sport was obtained. Here on one occasion eight 

 stags, averaging over 15^ stone, were stalked and killed by 

 him in one day. His first salmon-fishing was at Glenda- 

 lough in Galway, and he afterwards fished other rivers in 

 Scotland, notably the Ness and the Tweed ; on the latter 

 river in 1906 he landed 20 fish in a single day, thus beating 

 the record on the Hendersyde water. 



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