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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 
tetraw.)”? 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 Rev. 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 till 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, 
5279); 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. 
