100 BETviCK correspondexct:. 



Nettlccomhe, Ocir. Srd, 182G. 

 Dear Cal : 



I could not delay to the time mentioned in my last, 



the sight of the Vulture at Kilve, so went there yesterday, to 



see it when the Rct. John Matthew observing my anxiety 



in examining the Bird, desired me to take it back with me till 



Tliursday seven nights, the time of my setting out for Eath, when 



I might leave the Bird again at his house ; so it is now standing 



on the table before me here . (Sir John then gives a long 



description of the specimen.) Mr. Bickham Escott intends in 



a few days to make a drawing in colours of the Vulture, as large 



as life ; and I will get my Gd. Daughter Julia to reduce it and 



send to you. 



Bath, Ocfr. 26M, 182G. 

 Dear Cal : 



I have further to inform you in respect to 



the Vulture, that it was glutted by having fed on a putrid lamb, 

 when it suffered the man who shot it to come within ten yards 

 of it before he fired and missed, when the Bird flew a mile to the 

 sea side, when he approached again as near as before, and killed 

 it by a single shot in the head. Two days after, Mr. Matthew, 

 who stuffed it, went to the spot where it was shot, and saw ano- 

 ther, probably its mate, which was very wild, and flew away out 

 of sight : this contradicts the supposition of a ^Menagerie. Julia 

 is copying Escott's drawing of it for you, very well done so far ; 

 when finislied it shall be sent to you. 



The following arc the true dimensions of the Vulture, as 

 given me by ^Fr. ^Fatthew : from the point of the beak to the 

 end of the tail, two feet three inches; breadth, with the wings 

 extended, five feet six inches and a half. 



Thomas Bewick to Sir John Trevelyan. 



fintrshrad, Newcastle, .'30 Odr., 1826. 

 Sir John, 



Your very obliging letter of the 29th Ulto. came safe to 

 hand, and the information it communicated respecting the Vul- 

 ture shot ill your neighbourhood, surprised nie not a little. — 



