146 LORD LILFORD 



shores, and take up, at all events, the birds 

 Europe. I have never seen the Cambridge 

 Museum, but understand that it is very good 

 one of the best in England .... I think with 

 Yarrell, White of Selborne, and any recent 

 ornithological works in the library in Cambridge, 

 you ought to make a good start, but there is 

 nothing like personal observation in the fields 

 and woods, and let me recommend you to keep 

 notes of what you see and hear, and consider 

 nothing too trivial to jot down. You can at any 

 time see five Great Auk's eggs, to say nothing 

 of a very fine specimen of the bird and a 

 skeleton, at No. 6 Tenterden Street ; these are 

 the property of your affectionate, and I hope 

 revered uncle.' 



To the same. 



1 Lilford : July 15, 1886. 



' The chief news here is the appearance of a 

 Night Heron on Tuesday evening, seen by Irby 

 pretty nearly exactly in the same spot near 

 Aldwinkle where I saw one in 1868. I am very 

 anxious to preserve this bird alive ; there is no 

 reason he should not live happily through the 



