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the Eev. Edward Postle, has passed into the hands of 

 his brother, Mr. Henry Postle, of Witchingham ; and 

 the female procured at Lexham in 1838, is still pre- 

 served at Lexham Hall, as Mr. Lubbock has recently 

 ascertained. To these must be also added the Docking 

 male, before mentioned, in the possession of Sir William 

 Ffolkes, of Hilling-ton Hall, which was trapped and 

 afterwards stuffed by a farmer^ named Norman, some 

 fifty years ago. 



At Riddles worth Hall a female bustard has been long 

 preserved, which Mr. Thornhill's father received from 

 Cavenham, in Suffolk. At West Hai-ling Hall are a 

 pair of bustards, which, though bought by the late Lord 

 Colborne as British specimens, were doubted by him to 

 be so. At Clermont Lodge, Norfolk, it is believed there 

 was until lately a stuffed bustard, which had probably 

 been preserved there from the late Lord Clermont's 

 time, and if so had doubtless been killed in the vicinity. 



The collection of birds formerly belonging to the 

 Philosophical Society of Cambridge, and about two years 

 ago transferred to the University Museum, contains a 

 female bustard, which I am informed by the Eev. E. 

 Gwilt was obtained at Icklingham.^ 



The existence, at the present time, in good condition, 

 of the bird recorded by Mr. Lubbock in 1845 as taken 



* This same collection also contains two other British bustards, 

 both killed in Cambridgeshire — one a male, supposed to be that 

 recorded by Mr. Jeuyns (" Man. Br. Vert. An.," p. 175) as shot 

 near Ickleton in January, 1831, the other a female, said to have 

 been killed at Littleport. The specimen stated by Yarrell and 

 others to have been killed near Caxton in December, 1832, and to 

 be preserved in the same museum, is a little bustard (Otis tetrax) ! 

 (See Mr. H. Turner's note in " Mag. IsTat. Hist.," for 1833, p. 613 ; 

 and Mr. Jenyns's work already quoted, p. 176.) A bustard's egg 

 also in the collection was presented to the Philosophical Society in 

 March, 1831, by Mr. Bai-ron, as having been found in Cambridge- 

 shire. 



