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other Naturalists, besides adding value to the 

 separate records. 



It may not be out of place to add that, since 

 1891, I have entirely discarded the gun as a 

 " help " to observation, and have derived comparably 

 more real pleasure and interest in the pursuit of 

 wild life with a field-glass than I ever did with 

 a fowling-piece. I only regret that so many 

 incidents mentioned herein should relate to slaughter 

 and sport. 



A. H. P. 



July 1904. 



