BEWICK COEB,ESPO]SrDENCE. 103 



I received the drawing of the Vulture from Mr. Selby a short 

 time past, and have it now drawn upon the wood, and shall pro- 

 ceed with the cutting of it, as soon as I can — but in this depart- 

 ment I can not get so fast forward as I used to do. — I shall return 

 the drawing (as desired), to "Wallington, as soon as the cut is 

 done. 



The Japan Peacock never having been named as a British 

 Bird, by any Ornithologist, I therefore never thought of placing 

 its figure amongst mine :— but should like well to set the ex- 

 ample, as soon as I can see the living Bird, on account of its 

 contour, and also a stuffed specimen, to enable me to depict its 

 beautiful plumage — which I do not despair of accomplishing, as 

 you have taken so much pains to spread them. 



I think I have in the last Edition, noticed nearly all you say 



about the nest of the Golden-crowned "Wren, but did not know, 



to a certainty, as to the great number of the young, till now 



you have satisfied me on this head — and this will be noticed as 



soon as I can, and the same as to all the particulars relative to 



the Yulture. — I believe this last has been noticed as having been 



often met with in the southern parts of Europe, and what Mr. 



Davis says, is a further corroboration of the fact. 



I am, Sir John, 



With the greatest respect. 



Your most obedt. 



Thomas Bewick. 

 Sir John Trevelyan, Bart., 



23, Piiltency Street, 



Bath. 



Sir, 



Thomas Bewick to W. C. Trevelyan, Esq. 



Gateshead, 12 Jan., 1827. 

 I yesterday received a few lines from you,* requesting 



* The drawing of the Vulture, mentioned in these letters (which is now in my posses- 

 sion) by Sir Jolin Trevelyan's grand-daughter Julia (daughter of the Kov. Walter Tre- 

 velyan, and afterwards Mrs. Lowther) is that from which Thomas Bewick made liis 

 wood-cut, and from it also Mr. Selby made an etching for the ligure in his great work, 

 'The Illustrations of British Ornithology,' which however he was enabled to complete 



