100 LORD LILFORD 



1 1 believe you are fond of ornithology (I 

 know you are of entomology) and it may perhaps 

 interest you to hear that I have set up a hut 

 in the Dutch fashion for catching falcons, with 

 Pigeons, Ash-coloured Shrike, and Dutchman 

 complete, and that the said Dutchman caught 

 a fine last year's falcon on Monday. We have 

 two or three more of them about. I never allow 

 them to be shot or trapped, but my neighbours 

 unfortunately do not take the same view. I 

 fancy that a good many might be caught in our 

 Midland counties in this fashion. We always 

 have several here in the winter months, and in the 

 winter of '52-'53 when I was at Christ Church 

 and constantly on the shoot about the river, I 

 find by my notes that I seldom passed a day 

 without seeing one or more about Godstone, 

 Eynsham, Islip, &c. &c.' 



To the same. 



' Lilford : December 30, 1872. 



' Here the wildfowl are no doubt the at- 

 traction ' [to falcons] ; c we always have a good 

 many ducks when we have a flood, and there are 



