406 : THE ZOOLOGIST. 
1879.—Bullfinches eating Privet-berries, p. 220; An albino 
Weasel in Cambridgeshire, 455. 
1884.—Manx Shearwater inland in Shropshire, p. 481. 
1887.—Hedgehog eating Swedes, 345; Swifts nesting in Martins’ 
nests, 348; Distribution of the Bank Vole, 425. 
1889.— Pallas’s Sand Grouse in Middlesex, 227. 
Before the first appearance of ‘The Zoologist,’ however, in 
1848, he was a reader of, and an occasional contributor to, 
Loudon’s ‘ Magazine of Natural History.’ So long ago as 1830, 
we find the following note from his pen (vol. iii., p. 449), and 
this, so far as can now be ascertained, was the first note published 
by him :— 
“A female Sparrowhawk with a blue back.—-Sir,—In the ‘ Magazine 
of Natural History ’ (vol. i., p. 220) your correspondent T. F. says he 
has never seen a female Sparrowhawk with a blue back like the adult 
male. I have seen two the last year (1829) ; one shot in October, the 
other in November, by myself, in the act of pursuing a wounded 
Fieldfare, and it is now in my possession, stuffed.—F. B.; Kingsbury, 
February, 1830.” 
Until ‘The Entomologist’ was re-commenced, in 1864, the 
principal medium for the publication of information concerning 
insects (chiefly British) was ‘The Zoologist, to which periodical, 
as the above list shows, Frederick Bond occasionally sent notes 
concerning rare or little-known British Lepidoptera, for, it 
should be stated, that he knew as much of Entomology as of 
Ornithology, and possessed one of the finest collections of 
butterflies and moths in this country, the greater number of 
which were taken by himself. In the opinion of those best 
competent to judge, it is regarded as probably the most extensive 
and representative now in existence, combining the past with the 
present, for, until a short time only before his death, he missed 
no opportunity of adding to it and improving it. His name has 
been appropriately associated with T'apinostola Bondii, Knaggs, 
best known as a British insect, and Sthenias Bondii, Pascoe 
(Trans. Ent. Soc., ser. 2, vol. v., p. 48), a fine longicorn beetle, 
subsequently separated generically under Xynenon (op. cit., 
ser. 3, vol. iii., p. 159). 
The following letter, lately received: from one who knew him 
intimately, the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, of Bloxworth Rectory, 
