160 LORD LILFORD 



To the same. 



' February 22, 1887. 



1 1 have to thank you for another instalment 

 of your observations. I will ask Porter to send 

 you a copy of the book that I mentioned ; in the 

 meantime you are most welcome to borrow any 

 books that you like from my zoological library. 

 For the latest and most correct information 

 about British birds I recommend the fourth 

 edition of Yarrell, but the figures are not coloured 

 and most of them indifferent. For very good 

 account of habits, and tolerable coloured figures, 

 I should advise Meyer's " British Birds " in seven 

 volumes, but a good many new species and a 

 great deal of new information have been brought 

 to light since this book was published. For 

 really beautiful and correct coloured illustrations 

 of British birds, you will find Gould's great work 

 on that special subject in the library, but the 

 books are so large that you would require a boy 

 to help you to carry them from the house. It 

 would be a treat for any intelligent and deserving 

 pupils to be shown through these volumes, and 

 you are quite at liberty to use them in that way 

 if you think well.' 



