PREFACE. 



ERRATA AND CORRIGENDA. 



have less reason to regret, since it has enabled me to 

 put on record facts, retained only in the memory of our 

 oldest inhabitants, and which a very few years hence 

 would have been procurable only in a traditionary, and, 

 therefore, far less rehable form. 



There are but few individuals now living who re- 

 member the Great Bustard in Norfolk and SuiFolk even 

 in its latter days, and fewer still are the octogenarians 

 who can recall the appearance of this noble species 

 when still existing in " droves " in the Thetford or 



