160 LORD LILFORD 



I have had all my Romany books bound in the 

 old Romany-Zingari colours. ... I am very 

 glad that you like my last number. 



' Yours very truly, 



' LlLFOED.' 



To F. D. Drewitt. 



' Bournemouth : November 28, 1889. 



1 If you have any time for bird-collecting in 

 Egypt I should be greatly obliged if you could 

 preserve for me any of the Chats or Wheatear 

 family of birds that you may meet with. If 

 you should be able to do this, it would add 

 greatly to the value of the specimens if you 

 would affix a little card-label to each with sex, 

 date, locality, colour of irides, beak, legs, and 

 feet indicated thereon. The birds of Lower 

 Egypt are well known. I strongly recommend 

 you to ask Porter for a copy of Shelley's " Birds 

 of Egypt," and hereby beg you to accept the 

 book as a little memento of me. 



' I hear that has lost all his ancient 



sporting energy ; at all events he now prefers 

 the pursuit of long-tailed poultry and the brown 

 rabbit of commerce.' 



