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limit." On this point, moreover, Mr. Alfred Newton 

 remarks, " There can be very little doubt that as long as 

 the bustard exists as a native of France, Germany, 

 and Sweden, we shall be subject to occasional visits of 

 stragglers from one or other of those countries just as 

 we always have been to visits of the smaller species [Otis 

 tetrax.y It is most probable that the bustard recorded 

 by Mr. Lubbock as killed at Palling some years back, 

 was a foreigner, on a visit, perhaps, to its then surviving 

 relatives, but this bird (an immature male), as I was 

 informed by the late Eev. Edward Postle, who had had it 

 for some years in his possession, was killed at Horsey, 

 near Yarmouth, and not at Palling. Of its capture, Mr. 

 Postle, in 1865, sent me the following very interesting 

 particulars : — " It was killed, I should say, in 1820, at 

 Horsey by the sea, and was seen to come off the sea and 

 to drop into a turnip field, where it remained tiU a 

 farmer, a relative of a friend of my father's, got his gun 

 and shot it. It thus found its way into my father's 

 collection at Colney." There is no record that I know 

 of, either before or since that time, of any supposed 

 migratory bustard on the Norfolk coast until the severe 

 winter of 1866-7, when, a large bird (which, though not 

 procured, belonged, I have no doubt to this species), 

 was likewise observed in the Horsey marshes by Captain 

 Rising, who thus recorded its occurrence in the 



1861, one near York. To these may be added, also, one seen near 

 Stonehenge by Mr. Waterhouse, 10th of August, 1849 ("Zool.," 

 p. 2590) ; two which frequented Burwell Fen, in Cambridgeshire, 

 from the end of January to the 1st of March, 1856 (" Zool.," pp. 5063, 

 6279) ; a female found dead in Bridlington Bay, Yorkshire, 11th 

 November, 1864 (" Zool.," p. 9442) ; and a notice by a correspondent 

 in the " Field" (April 14th, 1866, p. 317), of one seen, at that time, 

 at Halton Holegate, in Lincolnshire; and a pair at Candlesby, 

 in the same neighbourhood, a few years before. That is to say, 

 one occurs in some part of England on an average in every two 

 years. 



