m PREFACE. 



Swaff ham tracts ; and in expressing my warmest 

 thanks to those who have so readily communicated 

 all the information in their power on this most inter- 

 esting subject, I have to regret the loss — while the 

 concluding portion of this volume has been passing 

 through the press — of two valued contributors, the 

 Rev. Henry Dugmore, of Beachamwell, and Mr. Anthony 

 Hamond, of Westacre, whose reminiscences as sports- 

 men and naturalists have been of essential value to 

 this work, and whose courtesy on all occasions in 

 furthering its objects is held in very grateful remem- 

 brance. 



Owing to more recent information respecting the 

 late Eev. R. Hamond's Bustards, at Congham House, 

 I have found it necessary to cancel my first description 

 of them,"^ but the dates and particulars as now given 

 are, I believe, fully rehable. I find, however, that I 

 have by no means exhausted the list of Norfolk killed 

 Bustards, as even within the last few months I have 

 ascertained the existence of others, which will be de- 

 scribed in an appendix to the third volume. 



As regards the extension of the work, I may add 

 that the favourable criticism that has, at all hands, 

 been bestowed upon those biographical sketches, 

 whereby in my first issue I sought to interest even 

 non-ornithological readers in the life history of our 

 *' feathered favourites" left me no option but to describe, 

 in like manner, the more familiar forms amongst 

 our waders and wild fowl, and thus while my 

 original notes have been entirely rewritten, the greatly 

 increased amount of materials at my disposal has 

 necessitated either an additional volume, or so con- 

 siderable a curtailment of the remaining portions as 

 would have destroyed entirely the uniformity of the 



* A few copies of the Bustard paper, in a pamphlet form, were 

 printed for private circulation only. 



