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With the late Mr. Lombe, of Melton, near Norwich, he was in 
frequent communication when that gentleman was forming the fine 
collection of British Birds, which now bears his name in the 
Norwich Museum, and he was naturally much interested in 1827, 
by an announcement from Mr. Lombe, that he had procured in 
the previous winter a new species of Swan, subsequently named 
after Bewick by Mr. Yarrell. Copious extracts were made at the 
time in bis note book from Yarrell’s paper on this same species, 
published in the Linnean Society’s ‘Transactions’ in 1830, but 
his correspondence with that distinguished naturalist does not 
appear to have commenced till 1835, although it is by no means 
improbable that they had become acquainted before that time 
since Yarrell’s visits to Yarmouth and its neighbourhood, for snipe 
shooting in spring and autumn, date back, at least, to the year 
1829. * Be this as it may, in the first edition of his ‘British 
Fishes,’ published in 183G, Yarrell expresses his thanks to 
Lubbock for a communication respecting the White Bream, with 
specimens procured in Norfolk, and in the first edition of his 
‘British Birds,’ of which the first number was issued in 1837, 
there is evidence, as well as in Lubbock’s private notes of the same 
date, of a friendly interchange of ornithological facts. Amongst 
other expressions of obligation to Mr. Lubbock, Yarrell specially 
refers in his history of the common wild duck (vol. iii, p. 171), to 
his having supplied him with the particulars as to the formation 
of a Decoy. This description was evidently written specially for 
Yarrell’s use, as the part containing it in the first edition was 
published in 1842, and in a foot-note to the second edition of the 
same work, in which the above account is repeated, Yarrell alludes 
to the more elaborate chapter on Decoys in Lubbock’s ‘Fauna’ of 
1845, f as “the best description of the mode of forming a Decoy, 
and the manner of working it, that I am acquainted with,” an 
opinion still more recently endorsed by Folkard, in his well known 
* See a letter on British Snipes, signed II. Y. I)., in the second volume 
of Loudon’s ‘ Mag. Nat. Hist.,’ p. 143, which, as stated in ‘ Thompson's 
Birds of Ireland’ (vol. ii, p. 270, note), was written by Yarrell. 
+ Yarrell’s copy of the ‘ Fauna,’ which, at the sale of his library and 
collections in 1856, passed into the hands of Sir Win. Jardine, is now in the 
possession of the writer of this memoir, and bears the autographs of its two 
former owners. 
