134 WANDERINGS AND MEMORIES 



Well, good-bye now. Please give my kind regards 

 to Mrs. Millais. 



**Yrs. ever, 



" Gerald Legge." 



Poor Gerald was killed in Gallipoli in August 1915 

 whilst bravely leading his men into action. It was 

 a fitting end for a modest and noble man. 



Lord William Percy, too, gives an interesting 

 account of his wanderings in search of American 

 ducks — 



" Cosmos Club, 

 " Washington D. C, 

 " January 9th, 1914. 



" My dear Johnny, 



" I wonder how and where you are and 

 whether you have had a good trip and are home by 

 now.^ I think you said you meant to be home 

 by Xmas. 



" I'm not going to try and tell you about my 

 journey — there's too much of it, and I don't know 

 where to begin — ^but I will tell you that I have 

 collected every single N. American duck, with the 

 following exceptions, and of a good many I have 

 got some quite good series. I have not got — ^Wood 

 Ducks (seen, but spared), Steller's and Fischer's 

 Eiders, Barrow's Golden-eye, and the three southern 

 forms of the Black Duck. I don't know what you 

 think, but I am very well satisfied with that record, 

 that is, if I get my things home safely. 



" I may as well confess that I am now getting a 

 bit ' stale.' I have never stopped going since I saw 



1 I was in East Africa at this time. 



