OTTER HUNTING— BIRDS FROM ADEN 219 



To the same. 



' Lilford : May 16, 1893. 



' We had a very fine morning's sport here 

 yesterday with the Bucks Otter Hounds, killing 

 a small but very game dog-otter opposite the 

 big plane-tree, after nearly three hours' work. It 

 was a lovely day, mihi cretd notanda, for otter 

 hunting was the sport that I preferred to all 

 others, and I was able to see the whole of the 

 hunt yesterday, from find to finish, from my 

 chair.' 



To the same. 



'Lilford : September 15, 1893. 



' I have received a consignment of seven 

 Caccabis melanoc&phala, 1 eight Francolinus rubi- 

 collis, and four Singed Sand-grouse. They 

 were all shipped from Aden. The Partridges 

 are very rare birds in confinement. I never 

 saw more than one in that circumstance — in 

 the Jardin d'Acclimatation at Paris. I have 

 received seventeen sacks of dried locusts from 

 Larnaca, not very fresh but much appreciated by 

 more of my birds than I can well enumerate.' 



1 Black-headed, red-legged partridges. They afterwards lived 

 in a wild state at Lilford. 



