429 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
shilling, and when ‘Large Coppers” (Lycena dispar) might 
be bought at the rate of ‘‘two shillings a dozen, if you took them 
as they came, or half-a-crown a dozen if you picked them.” 
Those good old days have passed away, and with them the 
worthy naturalist (one of the last) who could remember them. 
His memory will still live in the hearts of his many friends and 
pupils, of whom the present writer is proud to have been one, 
while the benefit of his teaching, too little recorded, will be’ 
admitted by every naturalist who had the pleasure of his 
acquaintance. 
As we stood bare-headed at his grave, on the 14th August 
last, in the quiet little churchyard of St. Mary, at Staines, where 
the last years of his life had been spent, we thought of many a 
byegone day spent with him in the woods and fields, in the 
autumn stubble and the wintry marsh, and recalled many 
an act of friendship. The sky was overcast, the heavens 
frowned, and as if unable, like ourselves, to repress a parting 
tear, dropped gentle rain as we moved away; while a few 
passing Swallows, with lowered flight, twittered o’er the open 
grave, a fitting dirge for one who had been the friend of birds 
through life, and who had made so many others feel the pleasure 
which he himself derived from a study of their haunts and habits. 
The accompanying photograph was taken in 1882. 


NOTES ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 
AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By tHe Rr. Hon. Lorp Livrorp, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
I CONTINUE my notes from Oct. 25th (Zool. 1888, p. 466). 
Oct. 31st. One Swallow reported at Lilford.—R. C. 
Nov. 3rd. A Jack Snipe snared at decoy weighed full 3 oz. A 
very fine young male Golden-eye shot by my son near Aldwincle. 
Nov. 7th. Two Coots (first appearance this autumn ) on the 
river near Lilford.—R. C. 
Nov. 14th. ‘‘A tiercel Peregrine came at the decoy-pigeon 
at the hawk-hut and struck it so hard as to prevent its using its 
wings ; the hawk came again and again, but would not ‘ bind to,’ 
and after some ten minutes of repeated stooping, flew slowly 
