On the Occurrence of some of the Rarer Species of Birds, 83 



am sure my nevie will tell you. For, it is impossible for anybodys company to 

 be more desired than mine. Wheresoever I come I am thought pretty good 

 company, sure my wits serve me not so well in that muddie air as they do here, 

 but howsoever, since you cannot be here I will use them as well as I can both for 

 your contentment and my own. I am glad the things I sent you fit you so well, 



but if I should not know your measui'e I know not who should All 



that I have to say more is, that I am sorry you omitted to let me know in 

 what state of health you were when you writ last to me, but I will hope it is well, 

 which I more desire than my own and will heartily pray for as one who is 

 " Thy faithful true loving wife 



"Anna Caelton. 



"You think I have no servants but I send you here a letter by which you may 

 judge. 



" from London the 31 June." * 



And now with a fluttering hope that you, too, may recover this 

 depression, I humbly take my leave. 



ON THE 



faixmmt of gome of % °§mx $pcm of 

 ^xxh k i\t ^tg!jkttr|ooir of SsUsfottg, 



By the Rev. Arthtte P. Moeees, Vicar of Britford. 

 (Continued from. Vol. xxi., p. 255 J 



PART VI. — NATATORES. 



SjSpK'E come now to mention the last Order of birds, the Natatores, 

 or Swimmers — and though a county with a sea-board can 

 naturally boast a far larger number of both residents and visitors 

 of the Order than an inland county can hope to, yet Wilts is not so 

 far removed from the great waters but that it can speak of a very 

 fair proportion of wanderers from the sea side ; and many a straggler 



• Dated 31st June (1623), State Papers, Domestie Series, James I., vol, 147—90. 



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