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the Rev. Edward Postle, has passed into the hands of 
his brother, Mr. Henry Postle, of Witchingham; and 
the female procured at Lexham in 1838, is still pre- 
served at Lexham Hall, as Mr. Lubbock has recently 
ascertained. To these must be also added the Docking 
male, before mentioned, in the possession of Sir William 
Ffolkes, of Hillington Hall, which was trapped and 
afterwards stuffed by a farmer, named Norman, some 
fifty years ago. 
At Riddlesworth Hall a female bustard has been long 
preserved, which Mr. Thornhill’s father received from 
Cavenham, in Suffolk. At West Harling Hall are a 
pair of bustards, which, though bought by the late Lord 
Colborne as British specimens, were doubted by him to 
be so. At Clermont Lodge, Norfolk, it is believed there 
was until lately a stuffed bustard, which had probably 
been preserved there from the late Lord Clermont’s 
time, and if so had doubtless been killed in the vicinity. 
The collection of birds formerly belonging to the 
Philosophical Society of Cambridge, and about two years 
ago transferred to the University Museum, contains a 
female bustard, which I am informed by the Rev. R. 
Gwilt was obtained at Icklingham.* 
The existence, at the present time, in good condition, 
of the bird recorded by Mr. Lubbock in 1845 as taken 
* This same collection also contains two other British bustards, 
both killed in Cambridgeshire—one a male, supposed to be that 
recorded by Mr. Jenyns (“ Man. Br. Vert. An.,” p. 175) as shot 
near Ickleton in January, 1831, the other a female, said to have 
been killed at Littleport. The specimen stated by Yarrell and 
others to have been killed near Caxton in December, 1832, and to 
be preserved in the same museum, is a little bustard (Otis tetra) ! 
(See Mr. H. Turner’s note in “ Mag. Nat. Hist.,”’ for 18338, p. 513; 
and Mr. Jenyns’s work already quoted, p. 176.) A bustard’s egg 
also in the collection was presented to the Philosophical Society in 
March, 1831, by Mr. Barron, as having been found in Cambridge- 
shire. 
