WILD PUFFIN IN LONDON 151 



To F. Dawtrey Drewitt, M.A., M.D. 



' Bournemouth : May 20, 1887. 



' My dear Drewitt, — . . . The misguided 

 Puffin x reached me safely this morning, and I 

 have by second post received your letter about it, 

 for which I am obliged. I have sent a notice to 

 the Morning Post, the correct channel for infor- 

 mation of the arrival of distinguished travellers 

 to the West End, and I have written a note of 

 the occurrence to Harting, the Ornithological 

 Kecorder for Middlesex, asking him to notice it 

 in the Zoologist. A young Puffin was picked 

 up not very far from Thrapston last January, 

 and sent for me to Cosgrave, who managed to 

 keep it alive for about a fortnight. ... I have 

 been very well of late, but, like Sterne's Starling, 

 "I can't get out " . . . . 



1 Yours very truly, 



1 LlLFOED.' 



1 The puffin to which this letter alludes, mistaking rows of 

 London houses for its native cliffs, one night in May flew down a 

 chimney of No. 45 Brook Street, a house my brother had lately 

 occupied. There is an account of it in British Birds, vol. vi. p. 96. 



