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was animated and highly interesting, whether on birds, 

 men, or books — for he was an eager reader, thongh canstic 

 enough in his comments on " theorists " and " doctrinaires " 

 whose treatises he was apt to dismiss with the word '' bosh." 



Giving up his farm at Moyview in 1909, he returned at 

 the age of eighty to his native county, where he passed the 

 last six years of his life — his last western exploring tour being 

 taken in 1911 in the company of his attached friend R. M. 

 Barrington along the North Mayo coast. His death — -which 

 occurred only ten weeks after Barrington's — was the result of 

 an accident sustained in his own house. His activity of mind 

 and keen interest in ornithology remained unabated to the 



^^"^l- C. B. Moffat. 



