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also Ctflopelth lacertina, Lacerta ocellata, and L. viridis. 

 I found that our turtle eats fish readily, which reminds 

 me that Galle had a pure white turtle-dove (Turtur 

 communis\ a variety which I do not recollect to have 

 before met with." 



***** 



Lord Lilford maintained to the last a devoted 

 attachment to that land of his old delight, Spain, whose 

 tongue he spoke like a pure-bred Castilian. You could 

 touch him to enthusiasm in a moment by any reference to 

 experience in his magic region of Andalucia. The editor's 

 father had early 'entered' his sons to Don Quixote, who 

 was to him less a hero of the imagination than a living 

 personality. So it chanced that years ago in Andalucia 

 we had set ourselves to find a helmet as near as 

 possible the counterpart of that the Don wore. It 

 meant a long search, because, although miniature basins 

 of the same form still hang as signs outside the barbers' 

 shops, the full-sized old brass basins have long given 

 place to copies in crockery. At last in a rubbish shop 

 in the purlieus of Granada the veritable thing was found 

 one of old red brass that took a polish like gold, and 

 was all dinted over as though from the many encounters 

 of the poor mad knight. 



It was a great delight to be able to send^ this to 

 one who, on his travels, had been wont to keep a copy 

 of the great book in his pocket, and knew it by heart, 

 so to say, in the original text. 



