LETTERS ON NATURAL HISTORY 93 



duced, and you may imagine the rapture which 

 father's rendering of this has always caused me 

 from my youth up. He sang it at Lilford last 

 autumn, I think.' 



The following letters, all dealing more or less 

 with his favourite pursuit, were written between 

 1860 and 1885 : 



From Hon. T. L. Powys (afterwards Lord 

 Lilford) to the Bev. H. B. Tristram, D.D., 



f.b.s: 



' Lilford Hall, Oundle : August 5, 1860. 



' My dear Tristram, — If I get another doubt- 

 ful fish I will send it to you. Ours is a slow- 

 running, muddy, weedy stream producing pike, 

 perch, eels, roach, carp, tench, dace, bream, rudd, 

 chub, bleak, and gudgeon, and very rarely a 

 trout. Our county is very rich entomologically 

 and for so inland a county not bad ornithologi- 

 cally. I have received a young Short-eared Owl, 

 and five little Bitterns : these last are very 

 amusing, and being young I hope to keep them 

 alive. Those generally sent from Holland to 



1 Canon of Durham. 



