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Hut not to forget your kindness about Birds, pray send me at 
your perfect convenience any thing you think I ought to know, 
or the history ought to contain about them. 
I am, Dear Sir, # 
Yours very truly 
Wm. Ya ait ell. 
Ryder Street 
S T - James 
The Rev»- Richard Lubbock. 
Bramerton, near Norwich. 
XYI. 
Bramerton Monday Aug t 7. [1837] 
My dear Sir. 
I thank you for your Letter. I was glad to find 
that you had already seen the Mess”- Paget’s work on the Natural 
Hist y - of Yarmouth. It is a most useful and accurate book; if it has 
a fault, it is that uncommon one of being too short. I have sent 
you some extracts from notes which I have made at different times, 
not that I am presumptuous enough to think that I can give you 
any new information. I found I had memoranda of the repetition 
of some scarce birds. In one or two instances, the Grey Lag 
Goose, for instance, I have continued to differ in opinion from 
Messrs. Paget ; * you will find a list of the birds mentioned in the first 
page of the MS. I send with this. I also have packed up some memo- 
randa which I made recently from the household accounts of a 
* The opinion expressed by Messrs. Paget was that generally accepted 
at the time, but now found to be incorrect, namely, that the Grey Lag was 
very common, and the Bean Goose less frequently met with. There doubtless 
was a time when it was true, but that must have been very long ago. 
