1 24 WOODVILLE : ITS PETS AND ITS PURSUITS. 



ing. I have, some time ago, finished my text for my first 

 number, and hope to get on quickly with the printing and 

 other preliminaries. I am so anxious to represent my mis- 

 cellaneous articles at full length as often as possible, that 

 I have chosen a very large form, a sort of quarto, a good 

 deal higher than broad, approaching to the folio form. 

 The chief disadvantage of this is the great price of the 

 paper, which, I am afraid, will make the work dearer than 

 I had myself calculated upon. As I am only to have four 

 plates, I hoped they might have been got up, letterpress 

 and all, for at most ten or twelve shillings a number ; but 

 they talk of fifteen or sixteen as the lowest ; which I am 

 sorry for, as the public, however friendly, don't like such 

 taxes. I think your own work very reasonable. 



" I am anxious to have in an early number, if not the 

 first, that long-tailed fellow, the quezal, from Vera Paez, 

 to whose magnificent train, from my large paper, I could 

 do ample justice. Mr Schenley, who brought the bird 

 home, has kindly offered to procure me access to the 

 specimen in London, which he presented to Mr Canning 

 — that in the College Museum being incomplete in the 

 plumage of the tail. But I would almost rather try my 

 hand at the latter specimen than be at the trouble and 

 expense of ordering a drawing to be made by some one 

 whose skill I have not proved, and with whose perform- 

 ance I might not be satisfied. I was told, however, some 



