94 LORD LILFORD 



Leadenhall Market are old ones, snared round 

 the head, and almost invariably injured about 

 the eyes. I am going to have a son of old 

 Otman's, Oxford's solitary bird-stuffer, here as 

 keeper of the birds. . . . 



' Yours very truly, 



' T. L. Powys.' 



To the same. 



' Gaick Forest, Kingussie, N.B. : August 28, 1864. 



* . . . I hope, besides the account in the 

 Ibis which we have a right to expect, that we 

 shall be favoured with a detailed account of 

 your doings in some such form as the " Great 

 Sahara," which, without flattery of any kind, I 

 consider one of the most interesting and amusing 

 books of travel (and I read a good many) that I 

 have ever met. . . . 



1 We are having good sport and tine weather 

 up here. . . . They told me that in Andalusia 

 the Great Spotted Cuckoo generally lays in the 

 nests of Spanish Magpie ; these latter lived in 

 companies.' 



