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quent this year ; it has been a great lemming 

 season in Scandinavia, and these buzzards and 

 many other Raptorial birds follow the hordes. 

 I heard from a friend who has a shooting near 

 Trondjhem that Snowy Owls were breeding in 

 great numbers on the field. He sent me two 

 young ones, and a young Rough-legged Buzzard 

 alive. Snowies were a drug in the London 

 market. I received two more Rough-legged 

 Buzzards the other day from Valkenswaard, in 

 Holland, where they were taken by the 

 mynheers engaged in catching falcons for our 

 club and others. Grey Phalaropes have 

 swarmed all over the West and South of Eng- 

 land ; the ss. " Tyne " passed through hundreds 

 swimming gaily in the middle of the Bay of 

 Biscay six weeks ago. . . .' 



To Mr. Cidlingford. 



' Lilford : February 3, 1892. 



I have the remains here of what was in its 

 day a very fine collection of British birds ; many 

 of them are in good preservation, though very 

 badly mounted. They have been stuffed nearly 

 a hundred years, but I fear that most of them 



