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Lynx, Wild Cat, Marten, Polecat, Hare, Ked Deer, 

 Fallow Deer, Roe, Chamois, Perdix grceca and 

 cinerea, PJiasianus colcJiicus, Woodcock, Double, 

 Full, and Half Snipe, and every imaginable Duck, 

 except the Scaup. We devoted ourselves to the 

 Wildfowl, and did great things. I was the dis- 

 coverer of chamois near Corfu in the Acro- 

 ceraunian Mountains near Khimara ; they were 

 well known of in the Pindus range. I start for 

 Sardinia about the end of the month, and do not 

 mean to come back without Bonelli's Eagle, 

 Eleanora Falcon, and Lammergeyer.' 



To the same. 



1 Turin : October 21, 1858. 



' My dear Newton, I have as you suppose 

 enjoyed my travels immensely, but you are also 

 perfectly correct in supposing that my ornitho- 

 logical acquisitions have been very small. The 

 truth is, I do not in the least set up for, or con- 

 sider myself worthy the name of ornithologist. 

 I love birds with all my heart, but over and over 

 again I have let a valuable bird escape, if I 

 already possessed a specimen, and sometimes 

 even when I did not, if I could clearly make out 



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