THE NATURALISTS OF LAKELAND XXXIX 



youthful in a certain sense, for even late in life his mind was 

 always open to receive and assimilate fresh impressions of 

 nature. Latterly he took a walk in the forenoon, and spent the 

 afternoon in a pleasant saunter after bird or flower. He 

 delighted in returning day after day to any particular spot in 

 which the first arrival of one of our summer birds was likely to 

 be noticed. 



While the evening of life came to T. C. Heysham in the 

 solitude of his bachelor home in a narrow town street, his friend 

 Dr. Gough spent his latest years in the home of his married 

 daughter, surrounded by those who sympathised with his scien- 

 tific interests and supplied every wish. The last home of Dr. 

 Gough is situated on the shores of Morecambe Bay. Away to the 

 north the hills which he loved so tenderly raise their peaks in 

 the distant background. Immediately to the east, and at the 

 head of the Kent and Levens estuary, the eye catches the long 

 line of Whitbarrow Scar, the former haunt of Red-legged 

 Choughs, whose clear-drawn notes and graceful forms would at 

 one time have repaid a traveller for a long excursion to that loose 

 screes of white and crumbling limestone in which the Peregrine 

 has also reared her brood of ' Eed Falcons.' Immediately in the 

 foreground at Arnbarrow are the extensive sands of the estuary, 

 over which career flocks of loudly c purring' Dunlins, and 

 many another long-winged, shrill-voiced Wader. It was amid 

 such scenery, and almost within earshot of the grey 'cranes.' 

 whose traits of character afforded such pleasure to his re- 

 tirement, that his spirit went forth to join the ranks of the 

 distinguished naturalists whose labours in their several genera- 

 tions command the respect and reverence of those who follow 

 them. He died on July 17, 1880. 



