. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. X ORIGINAL PEEFACE BY MR ROBERT GRAY. life in. lona. T have pondered over this " hook of sports" with an intense although a melancholy interest, many of the drawings being illustrative of incidents narrated in his letters, from which the present volume has been compiled. In one of the scenes is depicted a life-like flock of thirteen long-tailed ducks, and the author in his shooting punt with his two dogs, " Dash " and " Doran," looking eagerly at the result of a poking shot at the retreating birds; in another, a vast colony o
. The birds of Iona & Mull. Birds. X ORIGINAL PEEFACE BY MR ROBERT GRAY. life in. lona. T have pondered over this " hook of sports" with an intense although a melancholy interest, many of the drawings being illustrative of incidents narrated in his letters, from which the present volume has been compiled. In one of the scenes is depicted a life-like flock of thirteen long-tailed ducks, and the author in his shooting punt with his two dogs, " Dash " and " Doran," looking eagerly at the result of a poking shot at the retreating birds; in another, a vast colony of Puffins at Lunga Island; in a third, a Cormorant battue at Staffa; and in a fourth, a Peregrine Falcon exultingly clutching a Chough, while he himself is being shot at from below. R. G. Edinburgh, 1875. Our deceased friend, the previous Editor, Mr Robert Gray, in winding up the above preface, goes on to say that in prosecuting his task he ever kept in view the difficulty, he might almost say impossi- bility, of adding to the journals of so gifted a writer a word that would enhance their originality or Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Graham, Henry Davenport, l825-1872. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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