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an ox. It could have been nearly imitated by 

 drumming with the fist on an empty barrel. 



1 Much more could be said on such a fasci- 

 nating subject as the bird-life of Lilford, but a 

 more competent authority, Professor Newton of 

 Cambridge, has already shown in his excellent 

 introduction to Lord Lilford's book on " British 

 Birds" how greatly ornithologists are indebted 

 to the author. I only write as one who must be 

 for ever grateful for what I learnt from Lord 

 Lilford, both as a man and as an ornithologist. 



' The word " auspicious " is said to be derived 

 from the words aves = birds, and spicere = to look 

 at ; Lord Lilford's happy life, a pleasure to 

 himself and a source of pleasure to others, helps 

 us to believe in the truth of that derivation. 



1 F. Dawtbey Dee witt,' M.D. 





