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of power being concentrated iii the limbs, -while the orgaus of flight arc feeble, and 

 unable to raise the birds into the air. 



This bird is not unlvnown in England. To ttikc only one instance, Mr. Yarrell saj's : 

 " In the collection of Mr. Henson, at Cambridge, was u specimen of the Virginian colin, 

 which was killed at Holkhara ; and in reference to the existence of this species in Norfoll<, 

 tlie Rev. Richard Lubbock wrote to me as follows : — ' A nest was found at Barton in 

 this coimt}^ three or four years back, containing numerous whitfe eggs, which were sold 

 to a bii'd-jjreserver in Norwich. Two are in my possession. I endeavoured to ascertain 

 the whole number of the eggs, but could not : there must have been above a dozen. 

 The nest was found in a marsh. Mr. Coke, I have understood, turned off many of these 

 birds at Holldiam, with what idtiniate success I know not. This made me suppose that 

 the eggs in question might belong to this bird, particidarlj' as a fen-man, near the place 

 where this nest is said to have been found, mentioned to me his having seen a bird like 

 a partridge in flight, but much smaller. Mr. Salmon, of Thetford, had also some of these 

 eggs ; and I think he told me he showed them to Mr. Ilemtson.' " 



