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contains nothing but a few Plovers, and some 

 Kuffs and Keeves. . . .' 



To the same. 



' 10 Grosvenor Place : June 10, 1854. 



' . . . Many thanks for the owls, which 

 arrived safely. I arn now rich in owls. I don't 

 know how long I shall be in this detestable 

 metropolis ; I shall now be too late to get any 

 eggs myself in Ireland. . . .' 



To the same. 



' Linen Hall Barracks, Dublin : April 2, 1855. 



' Many thanks for your kind promise to do 

 what you can about the Hazel Hens. 1 I would go 

 to the expense of 40£. or 501. to get over several 

 pairs in good healthy condition. Their favourite 

 food is birch shoots, wild strawberries, heather, 

 and larch shoots, I believe : at least that is 

 what the crops of those that I saw in Switzer- 

 land were filled with. They are an excessively 

 difficult bird to shoot, as they fly up into a thick 

 fir immediately, and sitting close to the trunk 

 are very difficult to distinguish. In five days' 

 shooting in the Jura, I only saw three, all of 



1 Mr. Newton was then going to Norway and Sweden for the summer. 



