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tliat could be identified. The eggs in tlie ovaries, about 

 the size of pins' heads, were easily distinguishable, 

 being perfectly white. The weather, as in the previous 

 instance, was intensely cold at the time, with snow on 

 the ground. 



To the Eev. C. W. Bagot, of Castle Rising, I am 

 indebted for the notice of a specimen in his posses- 

 sion, which was killed in that neighbourhood early in 

 the autumn of 1860. The sex of this bird, which was 

 stuffed by Mr. Baker, of Downham, was not noted at the 

 time, but, like most of the specimens obtained in this 

 county, it was killed in a turnip-field, by a gamekeeper, 

 who mistook it, as it rose, for a young guinea-fowl. On 

 November 29th of the same year another, which proved 

 to be a female, was also killed in a turnip-field, at 

 Norton Subcorse, near Loddon,^ and was preserved by 

 Knight of Norwich, for Mr. J. Wigg of that place. In 

 the latter instance, although appearing during some- 

 what mild weather, this straggler preceded only by a 

 week or two the intensely severe frosts of the two 

 following months, during which time two others occurred 

 in the adjoining counties of Suffolk and Essex. 



Last in the list to the present time, is a specimen 

 killed at Thetford, for the knowledge of which and the 

 following particulars respecting it, I am indebted to my 

 friend Mr. John Flower, of Croydon : — *' It was first 

 seen in a field adjoining Mr. Bartlett's land, about 

 Christmas, 1861. It was shot at by some one from 

 Thetford, and missed. It then went on to the warren, 

 a bare tract of land of about three thousand acres, 

 where it was caught in a rabbit-trap. Mr. Bartlett had 

 it stuffed and gave it to his father-in-law, Mr. Fuller, of 

 Beachamwell, at whose death, a year or two ago, it 



* N^ot Eeedham, as erroneously stated by myself in the 

 "Zoologist," p. 7315. 



