[3] After the publication of these verses in the above article, as it originally appeared in the issue of _Country Life_ for August 6, 1921, their authorship was discovered through the kindness of some of the readers of that journal and the enterprise of its editor. In a letter in _Country Life_ for August 27, 1921, Bishop G. F. Browne, late Lord Bishop of Bristol, thus describes their origin. “The first three stanzas were composed at Lowick Rectory, Northants, by the rector, J. S. Watson, his daughter Betty, and Dean Ingram of Peterborough. The authors felt that there ought to be a concluding stanza, ambiguously stating a final result. I told the story to Father Waggett on our way from Bournemouth to Clouds, and he suggested ‘booked it’ as the point of a last stanza. On that hint I wrote the stanza. In my book I remark that its tendency would be unjust to any real fisherman’s imaginative powers.” [4] December 11, 18, 25, 1921. [5] January 28, February 4, 11, 18, 1922. [6] _Field_, February 18, 1922, p. 233. [7] “Velocity of Flight among Birds,” by Colonel R. Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., in the _Ibis_ for April 1921, pp. 237-238. [8] _Field_, February 18, 1922, p. 234. [9] _Wild Sports of the Highlands_, chap. x. p. 135. [10] _Field_, February 18, 1922, pp. 233-234. [11] _Ibis_, April 1921, p. 234. [12] _Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands_, by Charles St. John, ch. x. p. 131. [13] See also the letter of Mr. H. G. Hurrell in the _Field_ for March 8, 1923. [14] This is a very considerable warning--H. F. [15] Pp. 258-259 (Witherby & Co., London, 1914). [16] Pp. 35, 36. [17] _Manual of British Birds_, by Howard Saunders, 2nd ed. (Gurney & Jackson, London), pp. 264, 266. [18] _History of the Birds of Europe_, by Henry E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (1871-1881), vol. iv. p. 617. [19] _A Practical Handbook of British Birds_, edited by H. F. Witherby, vol. ii. pp. 7, 9. Witherby & Co., London, 1920. [20] _Handbook to the Birds of Australia_, by John Gould, F.R.S. (1865), vol. i. p. 104. London. [21] Vol. ii. p. 305, Porter, 6 Tenterden Street, W.; Dulau & Co., Soho Square, W., 1884. [22] _Avicultural Magazine_, Third Series, vol. x. No. 4, February 1919, pp. 73-74. [23] Vol. iv. p. 616. [24] _British Birds Magazine_, vol. xvi. No. 1 (June 1, 1922), p. 31. [25] _The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma Birds_, vol. iii. p. 173. Published under the authority of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Taylor & Francis, London, 1895. [26] _Ibid._ p. 174. [27] March 15, 1923. [28] _Ornithological Dictionary of Birds_, by Col. G. Montagu: 2nd edition by James Rennie, London, 1831. [29] _Rough Shooting_, by Richard Clapham, ch. vii. pp. 125-126. Heath Cranton, Ltd., London, 1922.