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LORD LILFORD. 



Thomas Lyttlcton Powys, fourth Baron Lilford, born 

 18th Marcli, 1833, Avas the son of the third peer by the 

 Hon. Mary EHzabeth Fox, daughter of the third Lord 

 Holland. Even when at Harrow he had begun to con- 

 tribute to the ' Zoologist/ and he continued to do so while 

 at Christ Church, Oxford, as well as during his vacations ; 

 while it is hardly necessary to say that his subsequent 

 letters and articles in that and other periodicals only ceased 

 with his life. He was for many years President of the 

 British Ornithologists' Uniou, and an original member of 

 the brotherhood formed in November 1858. His first com- 

 munication to 'The Ibis' was in 1860, on the birds observed 

 in the Ionian Islands and on the coast of Albania, &c., in 

 the years 1857 and 1858 : a very breezy, pleasant series of 

 articles, with just the flavour of sport about the natural 

 history that a new publication wanted. To these succeeded 

 — in 1865 and 1866 — some charming notes on Spain, which 

 he had visited in 1856 and again in 1864. Lord Lilford 

 was so delighted with the country that he not only returned 

 in 1869, but devoted himself to working up the ornithology 

 of the southern portion ; and that he did not write about 

 his experiences in the marismas of the Guadalquivir was 

 probably due to his deUcate aversion for anything like 

 trespassing upon the ground worked by others. His liking 

 for everything Spanish led him to learn that language ; but 

 his natural aptitude for such study must have been con- 

 siderable, for in 1869, when the writer had the pleasure of 

 making his personal acquaintance in Seville, he spoke 

 Castilian admirably, and also its dialects, with a raciness 

 acquired by few Englishmen. In 1873 and 1874, Lord 

 Lilford — already somewhat crippled by the rheumatic 

 gout, to which he had long been subject, and to which he 



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