]52 LORD LILFORD 



To the same. 



' Lilford : July 7. 1887. 



' I am much obliged to you for your letter, 

 and the magazine and engravings ; I had seen 

 some of Mr. Lodge's work before. His drawings 

 are admirable ; I must try and make acquaintance 

 with him. 



' My good friend, F. H. Salvin of falconry 

 renown, writes that a man bathing in a canal 

 near Guildford was suddenly attacked by twelve 

 stoats and badly bitten in the thumb, but a 

 passer-by came up, and after killing three of the 

 vermin the others took to the water and escaped. 



I My nephew Mervyn is much delighted with 

 Shetland and the birds, and seems to have 

 found most of the eggs for which he went. I 

 have just had a huge barge sent up from 

 Peterborough, into which my chair can be 

 bodily wheeled with me in it.' 



To the same. 



' Bournemouth : November 20, 1887. 



I I am much obliged to you for your note of 

 17th, with information about Crossbills. They 



