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swimming the creeks which had to be passed, lie was a very strong 
swimmer — an art which he took care to impart to his children — and seemed 
as untiring in the water as upon the land, and equally regardless of temper- 
ature. Many a time have we walked miles together in the dark to listen to 
the cries of the night-birds in the woods or on the heaths, and he would go 
out with me with my gun in the early morning, but only to spoil sport, for 
he was fonder of watching the shore-birds than slaying them, and although 
he was ever ready to measure, describe, and dissect our victims, such was his 
gentle nature that I never knew him knowingly to cause the death of bird 
or beast. 
Burlingham loved to strike a bee-line across country, through enclosed 
lands, woods, heaths, and bogs, fording streams where possible, and running 
the gauntlet of gamekeepers, with whom he rarely came in contact. One 
such ramble, which took place in, I think, the year 1852, I attempted to 
describe in Morris’s ‘ Naturalist,’ vol. v., p. 27, hut 1 can recall many such. 
The trips to the Western Highlands and to the Hebrides were bright 
memories. In the former journey, in lSIt, he found the Wigeon breeding 
in Glen Garry (Inverness), and in 1855 I found three nests of that bird in 
the same locality from information which he gave me. His visits to Feltwell 
Fen (Popilot.) and Wioken were not profitable in their main object, which 
was to search for Savi’s Warbler, but they were delightful outings, and 
although I never remember to have heard him say so, it is quite possible 
that at Whittlesea Mere, which he visited at least twice, he may have scon 
the Great Copper Butterfly, for as late as 1836 Salmon says in his diary that 
their larva; were so common as to be sold for 3d. per dozen, adding, that 
a man named Philips told him “a few years ago” he had collected 30 dozen 
for one person. He, however, found the eggs of the Water Rail. Roydon 
Feu, a fow miles from Lynn, was one of our favourite hunting grounds, and 
here he found the eggs of the Spotted Crake, and in the same place 1 found 
those of Montagu’s Harrier. The Short-eared Owl we saw there several 
times, hut never discovered a nest. This wet feu was, in summer, a perfect 
paradise, and amongst the botanical rarities were the Cranberry ami Pyrol i 
rohmdifolia with many other beautiful bog plants. 
I could gossip to any extent about those early days when Burlingham 
and myself were much together, but I am afraid it would necessitate mv 
being too personal, and I can only add my tribute of admiration for a man 
without guile, a true friend, and a delightful compauion, whose eccentricities 
were many, but all amiable. 
Archdeacon William Pklham-Burn. — The Venerable Arch- 
deacon W. Pelham Burn, who met with his death very suddenly 
in the Tyrolese Alps early in September, had been resilient in 
Norwich since 1890, when he was elected to the important living 
of St. Peter Mancroft. During that time he had taken an active 
part in the public affairs of the city, particularly as a member of 
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