1770 SENDS BIEDS TO PENNANT 185 



I have the pleasure of meeting you I shall be glad to 

 communicate my papers. 



Since I wrote the above I have been this evening in the 

 forest, and have procured two bank-martins, which are every 

 way different from my Hirundo hyherna. 



In October her nephew made his usual visit to 

 Mrs. Snooke at Ringmer, where he noted crossbills 

 Mmong her Scotch firs — a fact he recorded when 

 addressing Daines Barrington from Ringmer.^ 



Letter XXX., of August 1st, 1770, to Pennant, 

 originally commenced — 



" Your obliging letter of July 24th arrived last night, and 

 I sit down this morning to answer it. I shall send you my 

 little cargo of curiosities with a great deal of satisfaction. 

 The birds are here at my house, but I will send them up to 

 town to my brother in Thames Street, who has got the fishes; 

 and will desire him to send them all together down to 

 Chester. If you should think proper to order your artist 

 to take any of my animals, I should be glad to see the 

 drawings. 



" When you have ascertained the fishes you will be pleased 

 to give me an exact account of them. The birds will be 

 labelled numerically 1, 2, 3, etc., so that you will be able to 

 speak of them with precision." 



Letter XXXL, September 14th, as originally 



written, concluded — 



" I return you thanks for your proof-sheet respecting the 

 elks, and am pleased to see that my description of the moose 

 corresponds so well with yours. Last night as I rode home 

 thro' Alton, I found at the post-house contained in three 

 franks Mar : Tli : Brunnichii Ichthyologia MassilieTisis. My 



* Vide 'The Natural History of Selborne,' Letter VII. to Barrington. 



