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placed on the pen, ; Dyed — and badly done.' 

 That was just like ; Teg.' " 



Among other subjects of a scientific nature 

 that he studied and wrote upon may be mentioned 

 albino birds, the great auk and its eggs, the 

 first African elephant shown at the Zoological 

 Gardens, the trichina in pigs, performing seals, 

 Wonga pigeons, collared doves, the feet of the 

 various species of birds, and, in a pamphlet 

 privately printed in 1881, the convolutions of 

 the trachea in birds. He issued in the Field in 

 1893, and subsequently reprinted, a chart or 

 plan showing the actual sizes of birds' eggs, 

 from that of the tinv hummincr-bird to those 

 of the ostrich and the huge dinornis, and of 

 the mammoth aepyornis — measuring some 13 in. 

 long by 9 wide. He began, but never finished, 

 a work on i; Xets and Netting."' It was to be — 

 and would have been — an exhaustive treatise on, 

 and manual for, net-making, mending and using, 

 and was to have been brought out in connection 

 with the Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensington, 

 of 1883. The first ten or a dozen chapters were 

 set up in type and even made up in page form, 

 with illustrations inserted, when an incident 

 happened which so annoyed him that he never 

 finished the book. His daughter tells me it was 

 through some woman writer begging the loan of 

 a proof and then using the information thus 

 obtained in an article, the publication of which 



