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my belief in the quondam existence of the Ptarmigan in Lake- 

 land, " on the former existence of a single example in a local 

 museum, but without any label or document to state the locality 

 it was obtained from." This statement travesties my position. 

 We have absolutely no grounds for saying that any bird in 

 Hutton's museum was or was not labelled. We know that some 

 of them were local, independently ; but I believe that as the 

 localities for the minerals in the collection were, we know, forth- 

 coming, so would be the localities for the local birds. All 

 memory of the former existence of the Ptarmigan has long since 

 died out among our dalesmen ; but it must be borne in mind 

 that during the ten years during which I ransacked Lakeland 

 for information, constantly seeking out the oldest inhabitants, 

 I found it very difficult to procure even traditional accounts of 

 the Red-deer of Ennerdale or the Sea Eagles which had their 

 eyries in Borrowdale. Nay, the Kite nested near Keswick until 

 fifty years ago ; yet I have only seen two veterans, both since 

 deceased, who could recall the " silver' d Kite" as breeding in 

 their native region. 



Did time and circumstances permit, I think it probable that 

 proof of the former existence of the Ptarmigan in Lakeland could 

 be obtained from the limestone caves of Westmorland. 



THE LATE PROF. J. 0. WESTWOOD, M.A., F.L.S. 



Following closely upon the death of the late Mr. Stainton, 

 whose loss we have had so lately to deplore, has come the demise 

 of another well-known entomologist, Professor John Obadiah 

 Westwood, of Oxford. On the 2nd January last, at the advanced 

 age of eighty-seven, he passed peacefully away, endeared to those 

 who knew him by his affability of manner, kindness of heart, 

 and constant readiness to help all who applied to him for infor- 

 mation. For thirty years he occupied the position of Hope 

 Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at Oxford, but for twice thirty 

 years his name has been known as that of a leader amongst 

 entomologists. For he commenced his studies of insects so long 

 ago as 1827, in which year he first began to publish the results 

 of his observations. At this time he had embraced the law as a 



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