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LORD LILFORD 



Holland, Lady, 13, 37, 44, 107, 



173 

 Holland, Lord. 12, 22, 37 ; his 



love of Spain, 76 

 Hoopoe, 14.3 

 Humboldt, 27 

 Hurricane of March 24, 1895, at 



Lilford, 192 



Ibex in Italy, 68, 69 

 Ibis, glossy, 266, 267 

 sacred, 266 

 scarlet, 266 

 ' Ibis ' Magazine, foundation of, 

 69 

 letters to, 78 

 Irbv, Lieutenant-Colonel H.. 

 letters to, 105, 108, 110, 156, 

 186, 193 

 Ixus obscurus, 116 



Jay, blue, 264 



Kennedy, Admiral, sends giant 



tortoises, 195 

 Kestrel, 161 

 Kite, in Devon, 64 

 in Wales, 147 

 Kolguev, expedition to, 178, 233 



Lacerta Simonyi, from the 



Canaries, 168, 188 

 Lammergeyer, 95, 177; at 

 liberty, 246 ; stories of carry- 

 ing off children mythical, 258 

 Lanner, 96, 199, 242, 243, 244 

 Larus audouini, 106, 122 

 Leaf bird, 264 

 Lemur, ruffed, 177, 253 

 Lepus Lilfordi, named after Lord 

 Lilford, 206, 280 

 pallidior, 224 

 Lilford, Clementina, Lady, 236 

 Emma, Lady, 73, 74 



Lilford, First Lord, 6 

 Second Lord, 8 

 Third Lord, diary of, 9 



Lilford, Thomas Littleton,Fourth 

 Lord, birth, 40 ; at Harrow, 46 ; 

 at Oxford, 47-53 ; facility in 

 languages, 52-90 ; early love 

 for natural history, 58 ; with 

 militia, 62 ; at Coruna, 65 ; 

 in Sardinia, 66 ; love of birds 

 and dislike of indiscriminate 

 shooting, 67 ; first marriage, 

 73 ; succeeds to title, 75 ; visits 

 to Spain on R.Y.S. ' Zara,' 

 103; at Genoa, 105; Spezia. 

 106; Naples, 106 ; illness, 112 ; 

 Algiers, 113 ; on yacht at 

 Dartmouth, 90, 124; death 

 of Emma Lady Lilford, 74 ; 

 letters on natural history, 93 

 129 ; second marriage, 130 ; 

 life at Lilford Hall, 133 ; avia- 

 ries, 136, 241, 253; letters 

 chiefly on natural history, 14:; 

 224 ; hampered bv ill-health. 

 104, 112, 113, 175, 225; at 

 work on ' Coloured Figures of 

 British Birds,' 139, 154, 162, 

 163, 168, 170, and ' Birds of 

 Northamptonshire,' 202, 222 ; 

 dislike of the ' fatal mania ' for 

 collecting ' British killed ' birds, 

 144, 196 ; at Bournemouth, 

 148, 152, 156, 205,207, 211; 

 lammergeyers at liberty, 177, 

 246, 256 ; address as president 

 of Northamptonshire Natural 

 Historical Society, 249 ; inte- 

 rest in Society for Protection 

 of Birds, 181, 182 ; president 

 of British Ornithologists 

 Union. 78 ; his great liberalit v, 

 232, 234, 281 ; gives away four 

 great auk's eggs, 233 ; gives 

 fifty pounds a year for im- 

 provement of Soutli Kensing- 

 ton Natural Historj' Museum, 



