298 ' APPENDIX II 



The two months following upon his cruise in the Mediter- 

 ranean in this year, Lord Lilford spent partly in London, 

 partly at Neuenahr, whither he went to take the waters. 



The first entry in the following extracts finds him just 

 returned. 



DOVER. LONDON 



May z$th. M -- S -- reports my bear at Zoological Gardens 

 as being very ill. 



Letters from old Manuel announcing the finding of a lanner's 

 nest in the Goto de Donana with three young birds and an egg. 

 Female bird shot and found to be minus one leg. Country so 

 dry that no flamingoes are to be found. 



Gave Dresser a pair of Audouin's gulls. 



LONDON 

 May 26th. Agreed to buy the great auk and egg of C - 



for 



Irby tells me that Mena has obtained Totanus stagnatilis near Malaga. 



Dresser has successfully blown the eggs of Melizophilus sardus. 

 I sent the two snakes up to the Zoological Gardens. 



May z^th. Invested in a fireproof safe for the better 

 preservation of the three great auk's eggs. 



George Hunt tells me that in March he killed 500 woodpigeons 

 near Gidding in little over a week. 



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WINDSOR AND SUNNINGDALE 



May -$\st. Drove up the Long Walk to Cumberland Lodge; 

 the beeches in great beauty and rhododendrons in full bloom, the 

 young fern and many rabbits adding to the beauty of our drive to 

 Sunningdale. Noticed the following birds : Blackbird, song-thrush, 

 missel-thrush, swallow, house-martin, sand-martin, swift, rook, jackdaw, 

 nightingale, blackcap, lesser whitethroat, chiffchaff, willow-wren, wood- 

 wren, robin, wren, great tit, coal tit, starling, skylark, pied wagtail, 

 yellow-hammer, stone-chat, stock-dove, chaffinch, common sparrow, 

 tree-creeper, pheasant, heron, mallard. 



