LETTER XXXI 



Extracts from Correspondents Sir George Grove The Blackbird 

 Vindicated Its Song described F. Smallfield R.W.S., The 

 Tulip Tree Derivation of ' ' Dwale " The Rev. Canon Ella- 

 combe The Velvet Rose Yellow Crocus Swallows Snails 

 Crown Imperial Leaves Absorbing Moisture Toads R. Scot 

 Skirving, Esq. Mushrooms Dictamnus Fraxinella Nursery- 

 men's Shortcomings Mrs. Hawkins Starlings and Vermin 

 Anecdote of Wounded Starling Rooks The Rev. Theo. 

 Mayo Seed of the Tulip Tree Light in Animals' Eyes 

 Miss Jekyll Ornithogahim Nntans described. 



January 2Oth, 1896. 



DEAR MARCO The following extracts, 

 which I have selected from some of the 

 many letters that came to me after the pub- 

 lication of my former volume, are far too in- 

 teresting to be consigned to the limbo of an 

 appendix, so I incorporate them in a final 

 etter to you. They mostly take the shape 



