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Spain, making some stay on the Balearic Islands, 

 and visited Corsica and Sardinia. He wrote to 

 me in October of that year from Cagliari, giving 

 a long list of the birds he had seen alive or dead 

 during the cruise. They thence sailed for Sicily, 

 but encountering a violent gale of wind in which 

 the yacht received some damage, they had to 

 put in to Malta for repairs. As the execution 

 of these needed some time Mr. Powys betook 

 himself to Tunis, where he passed two months, 

 enchanted with the zoological wealth of the 

 country and enjoying very fair sport. Thence 

 he proceeded to the Ionian Islands, reaching 

 Corfu on Christmas Day 1856, and there he 

 stayed " off and on " until July 1858, making 

 frequent excursions for sport or natural history 

 to the opposite coast of Epirus or ^Etolia, going 

 even so far to the northward as Montenegro. 

 The results of this prolonged residence in those 

 parts were communicated by him to the Ibis 

 for 1860 the establishment of which journal he 

 cordially approved, joining the British Ornitho- 

 logists' Union so soon as he heard of its forma- 

 tion and while they show with what earnest- 

 ness he entered into his pursuits, undeterred 



