108 LORD LILFORD 



To the same. 



' Bank Hall, Preston : October 9, 1874. 



* . . . I am glad to hear that there was great 

 exaggeration about the damage done by the 

 explosion at the Zoological Gardens; it was 

 quite sufficiently terrible as it was. 



'I should think it likely that my Falco 

 Eleanor a in the new Raptorial house was killed 

 or escaped.' 



To the same. 



' Lilford : October 3, 1875. 



1 . . . The only autumnal migrants that I 

 have yet seen are merlin and jack snipe. I 

 expect ring-ouzel and bramblings every day. 

 On the other hand, I know of two woodpigeons' 

 and two stockdoves' nests with eggs. . . . Dresser 

 showed me two specimens of the new Georgian 

 Grouse, also a new Pipit from Petchora, obtained 

 by Seebohm.' 



To Lieut. -Colonel Howard Irby. 



' Lilford Hall : October 4, 1875. 



' I have seen a woodcock carrying her young 

 one ; it was done by the agency of her legs, but 



