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Title: Lord Lilford on birds: being a collection of informal and unpublished writings by the late president of the British Ornithologists' Union. With contributed papers upon falconry and otter hunting, his favourite sports
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys, Baron, 1882-1896 Trevor-Battye, Aubyn Bernard Rochfort, 1855-1922 Thorburn, Archibald, 1860-1935
Subjects: Lilford, Thomas Littleton Powys Ornithologists -- Correspondence
Publisher: London, Hutchinson
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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eis that the beak and legs are not so brightly coloured.The surroundings should be a very watery marsh ; infact, you might make one of the birds swimming. Inaction these little birds exactly resemble our commonwater-hen, and jerk up their tails in walking andswimming just in the fiishion of that species. May 2nd. We are both delighted with your beautiful pictureof the eagle, which has just arrived. You have not onlyadmirably portrayed the characteristic aspect of the bird,but thrown an element of Highland poetry into the workthat is not often attained, and it deserves all praise. Imost gladly retain it, and shall always treasure it, for myheart is very often in the Highlands amongst the eaglesand the wild deer. AllgtiSt 2\St. The colour of neck and breast of water-rail is, Ithink, now quite right. I presume that you took thecolour of irides from authority ; I must confess that Inever saw them so bright, and should have been inclinedto say that reddish hazel-brown was the usual colour.
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oO NOTES ON ILLUSTRATIONS 95 Felruary 19//?, 1892. I fear that you will be sick of spotted eagles, but Iwrite to say that I am sending you the Subborne specimenjust as I received it last night from Messrs. Pratt ofBrighton. It is one of the most beautifully marked ofits species that I ever saw, and I shall be much obligedif you will make a careful drawing of it for the book. Itwould be well to put some life into it. I think as it had awater rat in its stomach when killed, I would put one in itstalon in the drawing, and to give the bird an expression ofseeing something far off after catching his vole. This Ileave to you, only asking you to make the drawing inattitude quite unlike the bird at Cambridge. J/oy iqfh, 1893. The osprey drawing has only one slight defect, andis otherwise quite perfect: namely this, that the principalfigure is rather too broad—thick—and gives to me acertain impression of heaviness. I do not know if youcan alter this by not showing quite so much of theright

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