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sure that I am quite right in stating you have altogether 

 excelled all previous attempts in this direction, and 

 the successful outcome of the shipment reflects the 

 greatest credit upon your excellent arrangements. The 

 birds being so rare, and the quantity so far in excess of 

 any private requirements, I hope you will be pleased 

 rather than offended at the distribution which has been 

 arranged. Acting in concert with Mr. Henry Nash, 

 who communicated with Mr. Lowell, we have pre- 

 sented twenty to her Majesty the Queen, for Balmoral, 

 and the Prince of Wales has been graciously pleased 

 to accept twenty for Sandringham. We have sent ten 

 to the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park, where they 

 are very much prized and valued, and we have turned 

 out sixteen to take their chances upon our Welsh 

 hills jointly upon Lord Jersey's property and upon 

 shooting land which is leased by the writer. Such of 

 these last birds as have since been seen were all doing 

 well, and I have a report to-day that those which were 

 sent to the Zoological Gardens are also well and getting 

 less shy than when first turned out. The birds which 

 were sent to the Zoological Gardens are the only ones 

 now in confinement, and it is understood that the so- 

 ciety will reserve half of any young birds which may 

 result in case those which are turned out should not in- 

 crease their numbers. I shall hope to report further 

 satisfactory progress very shortly. 



"PHILIP W. FLOWER/' 



What became of these birds we do not know ; that a 



