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Lowestoft, SufPollr, in April, 1845, when, according to 

 Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, it was observed "walking 

 slowly in a barley field, apparently intent on searching 

 for food, and was killed without difl&culty. The wind 

 had for some time previously been easterly." This 

 specimen was for some years in the possession of Mr. 

 Abraham Scales, of Pakefield, who afterwards presented 

 it to Mr. Gurney. 



Next m point of date is, I believe, an immature 

 specimen in the collection of the Eev. H. T. Frere, of 

 Burston, who has kindly supplied me with the following 

 particulars : — It was killed in February, 1850, at 

 Martham, near Yarmouth, by a young farmer, who, at 

 first, taking it for a heron, attempted to stuff it, and 

 thus, in a very bad state, it was brought shortly after- 

 wards to the late John Sayer, of Norwich, bird-stufier, 

 of whom it was purchased by Mr. Frere. There was no 

 question at the time as to the bird having been recently 

 killed, and the plumage is that of the first year, with a 

 few light coloured feathers showing through the dark 

 ground. 



Since that date, I am not aware that any example of 

 this bird has been procured in Norfolk, but Mr. H. M. 

 Upcher mforms me that some few years back, he believes 

 in the spring of 1865, he was driving with his father, 

 when, in a meadow close to the road at Warham, they 

 observed a crane, so tame that they at first supposed 

 it had escaped from confinement. It rose when they 

 stopped to watch it, and alighted again near a run of 

 water in the same meadow, but on their return soon 

 after it had disappeared. Subsequently he heard of one 

 having been seen in the Sandringham marshes, most 

 probably the same bird, which seems happily to have 

 escaped destruction. It is particularly noticeable that, 

 vdth the exception of the Feltwell bird, all three speci- 

 mens have been observed in the close vicinity of the 



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