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could be provided for them at Lilford, and 

 aviaries were built in the courtyard, although it 

 was not till within a comparatively recent period 

 that the beautiful pinetum, and the aviaries and 

 ponds in the grounds, were set apart for the land 

 and water birds in which he took so keen a 

 delight. 



In 1864 and 1865 he accomplished the visits 

 to Spain on which his heart had long been set. 

 Little, comparatively speaking, was known of 

 the avifauna of that most interesting country, 

 and ' his articles in the Ibis paved the way 

 for the more complete investigations so admir- 

 ably carried out by Lieut. -Colonel Irby, and 

 others.' 



The belief in heredity has grown so strong 

 that we have almost come to consider that 

 every taste or idiosyncrasy in an individual has 

 descended to him, like an heirloom, from his 

 two progenitors or their respective ancestors. I 

 suppose I must attribute my brother's intense 

 love of Spain, its people, its language, and its 

 climate to a taste inherited from his grand- 

 father, Lord Holland. The Whig statesman 

 had the same romantic love for that country, 



