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likely to be more than a pair or two about at 

 this time of year, and they no doubt are busy 

 questing for prey along the shore during the 

 day. There were a pair in the spring of 1887 in 

 the firs between your present abode and that of 



Mrs. D ; they had a nest, but I could not 



discover it for want of locomotive powers. 



' There — dear lady, you have set me upon 

 my hobby, and are punished accordingly.' 



To F. D. Dreivitt. 



' Lilford : February 14, 1893. 



' . . . The feathers that you enclose ' are 

 without any doubt from Reeves' Pheasant, of 

 which species I know that a good many have 

 been turned out in Inverness-shire. 



' The Crested Tit is very local, and may be 

 found in one glen and be entirely absent in the 

 next, under apparently exactly identical con- 

 ditions. 



4 We have had a lot of Bewick's Swans 

 haunting the valley of the Nene for some time 

 past, and I heard yesterday that two Whoopers 



1 From a forest in Inverness-shire. 



