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His published works, especially his beautiful ' Illustrations of 

 British Birds,' and his recently issued volume on the birds of his 

 own county, testify abundantly to his keen power of observation, 

 and his excellent judgment as a writer on ornithology. His loss 

 will be deplored, not only by the learned societies of which he was 

 so distinguished a member, but by a very large circle of friends and 

 acquaintances to whom he had endeared himself by an unfailing 

 kindness of heart and constant readiness to help. 



He passed peacefully away at the age of sixty-three, sur- 

 rounded, as was fitting, by all that he loved best in his beautiful 

 home in Northamptonshire. Here he had chiefly resided for 

 many years past, though he also owned a fine property in 

 Lancashire, in addition to the lands of the Fox family, to which 

 he succeeded in Wiltshire, and at St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, the 

 former abode of Charles James Fox. These two estates he 

 inherited respectively from his aunt, the last Lady Holland, and 

 his brother the Hon. Leopold Fox Powys, who died about three 

 years ago. He was a son of the third Baron Lilford, his mother 

 being a daughter of the third Lord Holland, a most charming old 

 lady, whom it was the writer's privilege to know when she 

 resided in London. Lord Lilford married for his first wife Miss 

 Brandling, of Low Gosforth, Northumberland, who died in 1885, 

 and whose son, the Hon. John Powys, succeeds him in the title. 

 With his second wife, who survives him (a daughter of Mr. Ker 

 Baillie Hamilton), all who had the privilege of knowing him will 

 sympathise in the loss which she, and they, have sustained by his 

 death. 



The accompanying portrait is reproduced, by permission of 

 the publishers, from * Black and White.' 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM ROMNEY MARSH 

 AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



By Boyd Alexander. 



"Times are not as they were" is a saying that might well 

 be applied to this district as regards the numerical distribution 

 of species of birds now breeding there, as compared with formerly. 

 Disturbing influences of one kind and another have come about 

 which hnve sadlv thinned their number. Indeed, in the case of 



