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Wodzicki, "Ornithologische Miscell.," Journ. f. Ornithol., 1856. The Pseudaetus is also obliged to have recourse to a subterfuge in order to gain birds that fly well. He easily destroys fowls, and hunts them so successfully that in Spain, in certain isolated farms, it has been necessary to give up rearing fowls in consequence of these numerous depredations.

Miscell. IX. 479-483; Rushworth, VII. 871-874; Clar. 624-7; Parl. Hist. As usual, in the later Royalist accounts, it is Cromwell that had contrived the whole affair of the King's escape both matter and form. Carisbrooke Castle, and the King's Letters thence. Parliament's New Method of the Four Bills.

The rod that got rid of the Cruscas and Lauras, That plague of the butterflies saved me the horrors, The Juvenal too stops a gap in my shelf, At least in what Dryden has not done himself, And there's something which even, distaste must respect In the self-taught example that conquered neglect. Feast of the Poets. See Miscell. Prose Works, vol. iv. pp. 120-70. James Ferrier, Esq.

During the last dozen years its price at auctions runs about £250 to £300. Audubon died in New York in 1851. See Life, by Buchanan, 8vo, London, 1866. Biographical Notices had been sent to the Weekly Journal in 1826, and are now included in the Miscell. Prose Works, vol. iv. pp. 322-342. Afterwards included in The Pilgrimage and other Poems, Lond. 1856.

He had been a judge from 1822; he died at the age of seventy-four in 1851. Baron Gifford died a few months later, viz., in Sept. 1826; he had been Attorney-General in 1819, and Chief-Justice in 1824. Lord and Lady Gifford had visited Abbotsford in the autumn of 1825. Speech of Lord Chancellor Seafield on the ratification of the Scottish Union. See Miscell. Prose Works, vol. xxv. p. 93.

It seems strange that I am to be bound to write for men who have broken every bargain with me. Arrived at Abbotsford at eight o'clock at night. The Hector of Germanie, or the Palsgrave Prime Elector. An Honourable History by William Smith. 4to, 1615. Two London playhouses. See Knight's Biography of Shakespeare. See Crabbe's Tale of The Struggles of Conscience. Tales of a Grandfather, Miscell.