200 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



men is thus referred to by Hunt in his British Birds : — 

 " The specimen from which our drawing was made was 

 killed on Breydon in the month of July, 1818, and is now 

 in the possession of Mr. Youell, of Yarmouth." This 

 bird was a female, and he adds, " We are informed that 

 a specimen of the male was killed in Norfolk a few 

 years since, and was preserved in the London Museum." 

 This formed lot 96 of the sale catalogue of Bullock's 

 [London] Museum, 6th May, 1819, as I am informed 

 by Professor Newton, but the entr}'- (p. 33) is there 

 printed, " Round-crested Duck, killed in Norfolk, ex- 

 tremely rare." His priced copy shows that it was bought 

 for three guineas by Lord Temple. In the winter of 

 1826 two were shot, also on Breydon, and an immature 

 male was killed at Surlingham in December, 1827, 

 which Mr. Lombe says passed into the possession of 

 Mr. Deen, of Bradistone, and subsequently to the late 

 Mr. Thurtell, of Eaton, from whom it was purchased by 

 Mr. Gurney, in whose collection it now is ; it is a male, 

 but not in full plumage. On January 12th, 1844, another 

 of these birds was killed at Horsey by Mr. Rising, at 

 the sale of whose collection it was purchased for the 

 Norwich Museum; and in December, 1867, a female was 

 shot at Hickling by Nudd out of a lot of pochards, fifteen 

 of which he killed at the same time. This specimen, 

 late in the Rev. S. N. Micklethwait's possession, was 

 bought at the dispersal of that gentleman's collection, 

 on the 21st of June, 1889, by Mr. Connop, of Caistor. 

 There is also little doubt that a drake in perfect plumage, 

 purchased by Mr. Gurney at Stephen Miller's sale in 

 1853 for £1 18s., was killed on Breydon, probably, Mr. 

 Stevenson thinks, one of the 1826 birds. When Mr. 

 Doubleday's collection was sold on 23rd August, 1871, 

 Mr. Borrer, of Cowfield, became the possessor of one of 

 these birds, a male in change, marked in the catalogue, 

 "Yarmouth, very rare," respecting which Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., informs me he has the following note in 

 Mr. Doubleday's writing: — "This I also had in the flesh 

 from Mr. Stevens [of Leadenhall Market], who assured 

 me that it came from Yarmouth, and I have no doubt of 

 the correctness of this statement, as I saw the package 

 in which it came with other sea birds." 



