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was brought to Mr. Gurney, at Northrepps ;"^ on the 

 14th Mr. B. Bo wen wrote to the Eev. J. Gr. Tuck that 

 there were still sand grouse to be seen between Thorn- 

 ham and Eingstead, and that one had been killed on the 

 marshes, at Thornham, in the first week of the previous 

 December; on the same day (the 14th of January) a 

 male and a female were killed near Wells ; on the 28th 

 three were seen, as T am informed by Mr. F. Newcome, 

 during a partridge drive at Downham (Suffolk) ; and on 

 the 29th the same gentleman tells me six others were 

 seen at Wilton, in Norfolk. 



On February the 16th one was shot at Buxton; and 

 on the 17th two were seen at Cley-next-the-Sea. From 

 this date to the 17th of the following October I have no 

 record of their having been again met with,t but on the 

 latter day I am informed that Mr. George Hunt saw a 

 flock which rose at his feet on the sand hills, near Hun- 

 stanton, and that on the 4th of December eleven were 

 seen by Sir William ffolkes when shooting at Docking, 

 twenty were seen on the same day in the next parish 

 by another person, possibly the same flock. Colonel 

 Feilden tells me that on the 22nd of April, 1890, 

 three of these birds were seen by Cringle and another 

 shore-gunner to whom the species is well known, to 

 come inland from Holkham Bay, disappearing in the 

 sandhills. On the 9th of May, as I am informed by Sir 

 Edward Newton, five were observed to fly from the land 

 and drop on the beach at Lowestoft just above high- 

 water mark; and on the 10th another flock of nine 

 were seen flying southward at the same place. About 

 the 15th of May a flock of fourteen were seen from the 

 sea near Aldeburgh, Sufiblk, as reported by Mr. Edward 

 Neave in "Science Gossip" for 1890, p. 187. J 



* This bird had probably been injured, and is now dead, but a 

 male, also taken by hand some time previously, is still alive 

 (August, 1890) in the aviary at Northrepps. 



f Professor Newton was informed on what seems to be good 

 authority that during the summer of 1889 a small number fre- 

 quented some open breaks at Eriswell, in the adjoining county, 

 not very far from our own boundary ; and it is quite possible that 

 they bred there, though no eggs or young were observed. 



J On the 30th May, 1890, Mr. Cordeaux writes me, " Sand 

 grouse came direct in from the sea to Spurn Point last week, and 

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