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chased by Mr. Borrer, at Cambridge. Mr. Wood’s bird, 
killed at Morston (a not unlikely locality), had no 
doubt travelled beyond its ordinary beat, in search of 
those companions whose fate had been sealed before its 
own, and of other stragglers, not necessarily migrants, 
Mr. Lubbock states (1845) “‘ some twenty-five years back 
several were observed in Wilby field, between Attle- 
burgh and Harling, within twenty miles of Norwich.” 
To refer, also, once more to the bird mentioned 
by the same author as “taken some fifty or sixty 
years back, at Sprowston, within two miles of this city, 
by means of greyhounds,” it appears quite as probable, 
from the circumstances attending its capture—which 
occurred on a “very windy morning after a tempestuous 
night”’—that it had been caught by the gale and thus 
transferred from the western to the eastern side of the 
county,* as that it had arrived as a foreign visitant 
on our coast through the same influences. 
It is, however, as a migrant only that the bustard 
now holds a place in the list of Norfolk Birds; and, 
considering the range of this species on the continent 
at the present time, it is rather a matter of surprise 
that more stragglers should not reach the British 
Islands, described by Mr. Gouldt as “their western 
* In White’s “ Gazetteer of Norfolk” (3rd ed.), a certain locality 
adjoining the parish of Forncett St. Peter, some twelve miles 
from Norwich, is described as “ Bustard’s Green,” but I cannot 
learn that there are any ornithological associations connected with 
it to account for its singular title. 
+ Mr. Gould, in his “Birds of Great Britain,” gives the par- 
ticulars of eight migratory specimens killed in different parts of 
England since the species became extinct in this county. One, a 
female, at the Lizard, Cornwall, in March, 1843; another near St. 
Austell, in 1854; a female, in 1850, at Lydd, in Romney-marsh; 
another in the parish of Bratton-Clovelly, North Devon; a female 
at Leeshill, Cumberland, in March, 1854; one at Hungerford, in 
January, 1856; a young male at Romney, in 1859; and in February, 
