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grass, 58 total, 153. Birds Buntings, 2 ; Green- 

 Finches, 8 ; Yellow- Hammers, 53 ; Sparrows, 195 ; 

 Brown Linnets, a flock of about 30, as nearly as 

 could be ascertained total, 288. 



The question was sometimes asked as to what par- 

 ticular school of Churchmanship he was attached. 

 Those who made the inquiry did not, for the most 

 part, receive the answer they expected, for he had 

 a deep-rooted aversion to partisanship in Church 

 matters, and never liked it to be thought that he 

 belonged exclusively to any party ; accordingly to 

 the " Evangelical " he seemed more than not a 

 High Churchman, and vice versa. He once ex- 

 plained his views as follows : 



" For myself, as far as mere names go, I am not, 

 never was, and never will be either a Low or a 

 High Churchman ; unless, indeed, I am both. If to 

 take my stand on the one great and main doctrine 

 which alone gives all others their importance is to 

 be a Low Churchman, then I am such in the very 

 deepest depth. If to desire to see all things done 

 reverently, ' decently and in order,' ' according to 

 due order,' in the Church is to be a High Church- 

 man, then I acknowledge myself to be a High 

 Churchman, and a very High one. 



"It is always painful to me to see any common 

 book laid on the Bible ; but I would make one 

 exception in favour of the Prayer-Book, only as 

 denoting that it rests solely on the authority of the 

 Book of Books, namely, on the great Truth of 

 Truths it contains as the 'Church's One Founda- 



