36 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
Richard Griffin* (now residing at Weymouth), from 
a bird-stuffer, named Bilson, at Bury St. Edmund’s, 
whose son subsequently informed Mr. A. Newton that 
the bird in question had been brought to his father by a 
labouring man, and was killed near Lakenheath. From 
further enquiries made by Mr. Newton, it would appear 
to have been one trapped at Eriswell, in Suffolk, about 
1827 or 1829, by a man named Gathercole, and is, 
probably, the specimen mentioned by Bishop Stanley 
(“ Familiar History of Birds,” vol. ii., p. 3, 2nd ed.) as 
having been trapped at “ Cresswell”—an obvious mis- 
print for Eriswell, near Mildenhall. This female remained 
in the Norwich Museum until Mr. Scales’s fine pair were 
presented by Mr. J. H. Gurney, when, as a duplicate, 
it was exchanged for several foreign bird-skins, and 
thus passed into the hands of Mr. W. EH. Cator, then 
an undergraduate of Queen’s College, Cambridge, 
who subsequently parted with it to Mr. A. F. Sealy. 
During that gentleman’s absence from England, in 
1865, I first saw this bird in the charge of Mr. F. 
Barlow, of Cambridge, and recognised it at once when 
sent to Norwich by Mr. Lucas, in 1867, to be re-stuffed. 
On enquiry I ascertained from Mr. Lucas that he had 
lately purchased the bird in London, at the sale of part 
of Mr. Sealy’s collection, consequent on his continued 
residence abroad. Mr. Knight, of Norwich, who has 
been for many years birdstuffer to the Norwich Museum, 
examined Mr. Lucas’s bird at my request, and from the 
manner in which one leg had been mended with black 
cord, and other peculiarities, was perfectly sure of its 
identity with the original museum specimen. 
The male bird killed at Horsey, since the death of 
* In a letter lately received from Mr. Griffin confirming these 
particulars, that gentleman also adds that an egg, quite ready for 
exclusion, was taken from this bird, and was in his possession for 
some years, but he cannot now remember what became of it. 
