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days old. 1 hear that Cullingford showed you my 

 White Kedwing. 



' . . . I have a lot of Pratincoles for the first 

 time.' 



To the same. 



' Lilford : August 26, 1894. 



' My most interesting live-stock acquisitions 

 of late have been a batch of Caccabis melano- 

 cephala l from Aden, and a splendid Wattled 

 Crane, the one species that was lacking in my 

 collection of Cranes, now complete. 



To F. D. Drewitt. 



1 Lilford : October 13, 1894. 



' Thank you very much for your letter and the 

 basket of Tringse from Portland and the Chesil 

 beach. There can be no harm in taking tribute 

 of these migratory hordes of waders on our 

 coasts in autumn. 



1 " Here-mice " 2 for bats is almost pure Anglo- 

 Saxon, quite new to me, though " Eere-mice " I 



1 Black-headed Partridge. 



2 Used by quarrymen in Portland. 



