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blows about the head from the bill of the crow laid him 
dead in a few seconds.” 
By the year 1858 Edward had accumulated another 
splendid collection. It was his third, and probably his best. 
The preserved birds were in splendid order. Most of them 
were in their natural condition—flying or fluttering, peck- 
ing or feeding—with their nests, their eggs, and sometimes 
their young. He had also a large collection of insects, in- 
cluding many rare beetles—together with numerous fishes, 
crustaceans, zoophytes, mollusks, fossils, and plants. 
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WUITEHILLS AND BAY OF BOYNDIE, FROM BANFF LINKS, 
Although Edward still continued his midnight explora- 
tions, he felt that he must soon give them up. Lying out 
at night can not be long endured in this country. It is not 
the cold, so much as the damp, that rheumatizes the muscles 
and chills the bones. When going out at night, Edward 
was often advised to take whisky with him. He was told 
that, if he would drink it when he got wet or cold, it would 
refresh and sustain him, and otherwise do him a great deal 
of good. Those who knew of his night-wanderings won- 
dered how he could ever have endured the night air and 
been kept alive without the liberal use of whisky. But Ed- 
ward always refused. He never took a drop of whisky 
