LETTER XII. 



'To the same. 



November ^tk, 1767. 



IR, It gave me no small satisfaction to hear that 

 the falco* turned out an uncommon one. I 

 must confess I should have been better pleased 

 to have heard that I had sent you a bird that you 

 had never seen before ; but that, I find, would be 

 a difficult task. 



I have procured some of the mice * mentioned 

 in my former letters, a young one and a female with young, both of 

 which I have preserved in brandy. From the colour, shape, size, 



* This hawk proved to be thefahoperegrinus; a variety. 



1 Harvest-mice, which White was the first to discover and describe in 

 England. ED. 



