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living interest. He collected various animals, 

 including, of course, birds, and was a constant 

 visitor at Goshawk's, the bird dealer in the town. 

 It was as a boy of seventeen that he began 

 to send his first ornithological contributions 

 to the editor of the ' Zoologist,' recording, with 

 the freshness of close personal observation, any 

 matters of interest connected with the wild 

 birds of the neighbourhood. 



Colonel H. Barclay, of Tingrith Manor, 

 has kindly forwarded me a few reminiscences 

 of this schoolboy period. 'I cannot clearly 

 remember when I first made Powys's ac- 

 quaintance, but it must have been very soon 

 after my entrance in Harrow School in mid- 

 summer 1849. I well remember seeing in 

 Powys's locker in his room some little bitterns 

 which he had introduced surreptitiously, and 

 was in much fear of being discovered. I find 

 by the Harrow register that he left at mid- 

 summer 1850, but I thought I had known him 

 longer. He used constantly to be at our house, 

 where he was always welcome, and I can recall 

 his often singing the old Scotch song of " Bonnie 

 Dundee " for the amusement of my mother and 



