LORD LILFORD 



J. H. Gurney, senior, tells me that this P 

 got sixteen Cyanecula suecia 1 in a short space of 

 time. . . . We have been having some splendid 

 flights with old "Vesta," whom F. Newcome 

 probably knows and admires. She is the most 

 knowing falcon I ever saw, and if she gets bored 

 by "putting in" without killing, goes off and 

 takes a pigeon, wild or tame, on her own hook 

 with the greatest ease. Yesterday whilst she 

 was "waiting on" at a great pitch, she was 

 vehemently assaulted by a female merlin, the 

 aerial evolutions of the two noble birds were 

 lovely to see. 



'Nothing would delight John more than a 

 day or two in Norfolk ; he would soon make a 



real good shot. 



< Ever yours, very truly, 



' LILFORD.' 



To Canon Tristram. 



1 My dear Tristram, ... I am very glad 

 that you are so much pleased with my coloured 

 plates ; personally I am not fully satisfied with 

 many of them, but I think that I may fairly say 



1 Blue -throated Robins. 



