LETTER XII. 



To the same. 



November ^th, 1767. 



1R, It gave me no small satisfaction to hear 

 that the falco* turned out an uncommon 

 one. I must confess I should have been 

 better pleased to have heard that I had sent 

 you a bird that you had never seen before ; 

 but that, I find, would be a difficult task. 



I have procured some of the mice x men- 

 tioned in my former letters, a young one and a female with 



* This hawk proved to be the falco feregrimis ; a variety. 

 1 Harvest-mice, which White was the first to discover and describe in 

 England. ED. 



