34, BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
one large case, a magnificent male, two females, a young 
bird in nestling plumage, and two eggs, and in a separate 
case a third female and two more eggs.* All the birds in 
the large group, as I have recently ascertained, were 
procured and preserved by the Rev. R. Hamond, in the 
year 1820;+ and the particulars of their capture, so far as 
they can now be ascertained,{ appear to be as follows :— 
One female was shot by a man at Westacre, who sold it 
to Mr. Hamond ; the other was picked up dead, by him- 
self, shortly afterwards in a turnip field near Swaffham, 
his dog having pointed it when ranging for other game, 
and the nestling was hatched out under a Turkey from 
one of two eggs, taken about the same time, on either 
Westacre or Massingham-field. The history of the male 
bird is somewhat more confused, owing, I believe, to 
two if not three having been killed about the same 
time, which would account for certain discrepancies 
between Mr. Moor’s account in the “ Zoologist” and 
notes supplied to me by Mr. R. Elwes, Mr. Scales (who 
frequently assisted Mr. Hamond in preserving his birds), 
and a former gamekeeper of Mr. Hamond’s, named 
Cater, now in his seventy-ninth year. There is no 
doubt, however, that this noble bird was shot at or 
near Westacre by Mr. Hamond himself, and, as proved 
by his own memorandum on the lithograph, in the year 
1820. It is said to have weighed twenty-eight pounds. 
* The late Mr. Selby came to Norfolk expressly to see and draw 
these birds, and the result will be found in his “ Illustrations of 
British Ornithology,” published in 1825 (vol. i., plates 64 and 64*), 
+ I am indebted to Mr. Alwin 8. Bell, of Weymouth, for the 
sight of a lithograph, representing this group of bustards (see 
“ Zoologist,” s. s., p. 2105), which was presented by the Rev. R. 
Hamond in 1831 to Mr. M. Martin, of Rye, Sussex, and on the back 
of which, in Mr. Hamond’s own writing, is an inscription stating 
that they were all shot and preserved in the year 1820. 
ft See Mr. H. J. Moor’s account of these birds in the “Zoologist,” 
8. 8. (p. 2024.) 
