200 LORD LILFORD 



1 How many species of Falcon are used ? 

 Are the young Falcons taken from the nest, or 

 caught on passage ? I imagine that the French 

 have about exterminated the Barbary Deer : 

 the only true Cervus in Africa which formerly 

 existed in forest country on the Algerian- 

 Tunisian frontier. This would be a treasure at 

 South Kensington. You will be sorry to hear of 

 the death of my female Testudo elephantina 

 (Giant Tortoise) a few days ago. I presented 

 her to the Cambridge Museum.' 



To F. D. Drewitt. 



' Lilford : February 25, 1896. 



'Yours of 13th reached me on the 18th. 

 I heard nothing of the lizards l till the 23rd, 

 when I received a notification from the General 

 Post Office in London that they were de- 

 tained there, as it was against the rules to 

 forward living animals by post. Upon this I 

 wrote to Sclater and have heard from him that 

 the three animals are all alive, and proved to 

 be a strictly Algerian form. I am much obliged 

 to you. I have presented two of them to the 



1 Thorny-tailed Lizards sent from South Algeria by parcels 

 post. 



