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ly. — Bewich Correspondence, loiili Notes. Communicated by Sie 

 Waltee Teeyelyak, Baet. 



Thomas Betyick to Sie Jonisr Teeyelyan, Baet. 



Neivcastle, 7 Sept., 1807. 

 Sir, 



Your kind letter came to hand last week, by which I 



am informed of your desire to be furnished with the new Edition 

 of my Books. — In this I am happy to haYe it in my power to 

 send you the whole, printed so as to match each other compleat, 

 and when you haYe leisure to examine them, I hope they will 

 meet with your approbation. — Your obliging communications 

 respecting the "Water Hen, the Water Ouzel,"^' and the Hampshire 

 Mouse, f particularly the last two, are I think new, and Yeiy 

 curious and shall be attended to, if CYcr there be occasion for 

 another edition, which I hope there may be, if time should OYer 

 bring about a safe and honourable peace. — In your list of names 

 of men taken from Birds, you have furnished me with eight more 

 to mine, and I do not know, not having yours to compare with 

 it, whether or not I can add any new name to yours, except in- 

 deed it be that of Qaayle or Quail, which I think I have got, 

 since I had the pleasure of seeing you. — I can only add, that I 

 have to beg that you will accept my thanks for your kind atten- 

 tion — but indeed Sir, you have so long and so repeatedly done 



* The "Water Ouzel." "What I have to say of the Water Ouzel is very short.— 

 When I used to fish in our shallow brooks near Nettlccorabe, I have observed that those 

 interesting Birds were accustomed to strike their breasts against the water, with a splash, 

 in order to check their course before alighting oa a stone in the brook (their flight being 

 uniformly rapid) which they did, if going up the stream, about a yard from whore they 

 would pitch;— if going down, two yards, with greater or less splash according to tlie cur- 

 rent of the water; and so well did they regulate all this, as never to miss their footing, 

 though on the point of a small stone: and though these birds are not web-footed, they are 

 good swimmers." 



Extract from a letter from Sir John Trcvclyan to his Grandson (now Sir W. C. Trevclyan) 

 dated, Bath, October 2Gth, 1820. 



t "The Hampshire Mouse." The Harvest Mouse, A[m .il/fwor/i/s, which was first no- 

 ticed in Hampshire by Gilbert White, in 17(57. 



W. C. T. 



The list of "names of men taken from Birds," nientitnu-d in this letter, in tlio haiulwrit- 

 iiig of Sir John Trevclyan, witli additions written l>y T. Ilewick, is in my iwssessinn. 



W. C. T. 



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