32 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
I have taken some pains to ascertain, as far as it is 
now possible to do so, the history of such Norfolk and 
Suffolk-killed bustards as are still preserved in public or 
private collections, and to this list of stuffed specimens 
I have also added a few particulars respecting well 
authenticated eggs, from both counties. 
In the Norwich museum is a magnificent pair, 
presented by Mr. J. H. Gurney, in 1843, and an adult 
female, by Mr. Hill Leathes, in the following year. 
The former (Nos. 183 and 183a) in full adult plumage, 
were originally in the collection of Mr. John Scales, 
who has informed me that the male was found dead 
on Beachamwell warren some time between 1815 and 
1818, having been, it was believed, previously shot 
at and wounded at Narborough by Mr. R. Sanders, 
then on a visit to that place. The warreners were 
attracted to the spot where it lay by some crows, 
which had picked out the eye. It appeared to have 
been dead some two or three days, having been hit 
in the lower part of the body, and had become so 
putrid that Mr. Scales had to remove a large piece of 
the skin. It, however, then weighed twenty-four 
pounds. The female was obtained in 1831, on 
Westacre-field, and was caught in one of about four 
dozen rabbit-traps, set by Mr. Scales amongst the 
turnips. This bird weighed either sixteen or eighteen 
pounds. The history of the second female (No. 183b) 
is somewhat more doubtful, but the late Mr. H. M. 
Leathes, in a letter to Mr. Gurney in 1853, stated that 
is to be found in the writings of most of the German ornithologists, 
but a very striking confirmation was also given by many of the 
newspaper correspondents with the Crimean army in the winter of 
1855-6, when a large number of these birds suddenly appeared, it 
is said from the eastward, on the steppes between Sebastopol and 
Balaklava then occupied by the allied forces. A fine male then 
obtained is in the possession of Mr. Alfred Newton. 
