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propose figuring it in your own work, I shall either not 

 meddle with it, or shall reserve my drawing for your use, 

 in the event of your not being able to get a better else- 

 where. I intend to lay it down as a rule not to meddle 

 with the British birds, to which at all times you do such 

 ample justice ; and, that I may adhere the more strictly to 

 this intention, I shall be obliged by your letting me know 

 at your leisure whether you propose to publish the caper- 

 cailzie (cock and hen), as Professor Jameson lately ex- 

 pressed a wish that 1 should figure those in the Museum. 

 As the species was not included in your first part — ' Land 

 Birds ' — he probably thought you did not intend having 

 anything to do with them. However, as I would rather 

 see them in your work than in my own, I shall be guided 

 by what you say. 



" I lately received a beautiful drawing of a live ocelot 

 from Liverpool, and an extraordinary fish (of the genus 

 Syngnathus) from New Holland." 



TO SIR WILLIAM JARDINE, BART. 



" Elleray, Bowness, Kendal, 

 2d December 1828. 



" Dear Sir William, — .... When I came through 

 Penrith I made inquiries for an old collector of the name 

 of Graham, from whom I thought it likely I might have 

 procured you a well-conditioned specimen of honey-buz- 



