THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 235.— July, 1896. 



THE LATE LOED LILFOED, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



President of the British Ornithologists- Union. 



The unexpected death of this distinguished naturalist and 

 sportsman, which took place at Lilford Hall, near Oundle, 

 Northamptonshire, on June 17th, has evoked a universal ex- 

 pression of concern and regret wherever it has been made known. 

 Those only who were privileged to know him intimately, and for 

 many years, can alone rightly appreciate his worth, and under- 

 stand how widely his loss will be felt by those who shared his 

 taste for natural history, especially ornithology, and his life-long 

 devotion to field sports. 



His keenness for the outdoor observation of birds and beasts 

 made itself manifest at a very early age, for even as a boy at 

 Harrow in the fifties he commenced to write letters to the editor 

 of ' The Zoologist ' which embodied many interesting facts that 

 have proved useful to subsequent writers of local faunas. 



Born in 1833, the Hon. Thomas Lyttleton Powys was only 

 seventeen years of age when as a Harrow boy he began to write 

 for 'The Zoologist'; and from the nature of the observations 

 which he communicated to this Journal from 1850 onwards, it is 

 clear that he lost no opportunity of recording the occurrence of 

 such uncommon birds as came under his notice wherever he 

 happened to be — at home in Northamptonshire, at Harrow in 

 1850-51, at Oxford (Christchurch) in 1852, on the Devonshire 

 coast during summer vacations, or on the Continent. 



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