38 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
by greyhounds at Sprowston “some fifty or sixty years 
back,” is in itself a fact of no little interest; and 
difficult as it has been to trace it in its many wanderings 
from one collection to another, it has given me no little 
satisfaction to discover it at last, where its value is so 
fully appreciated, in the possession of Lord Sondes, at 
Elmham. This specimen, a fine adult male, after its 
capture by Sir Lambert Blackwell’s greyhounds, was pre- 
served at Haston Lodge, near Norwich, where Sir Lambert 
then resided, and formed part of one of the oldest 
collections of stuffed birds in Norfolk. Here it was seen 
by Mr. Lubbock when a boy, as far back as the year 
1809 or 1810, and was then in the possession of Sir 
William Foster’s father, to whom Sir Lambert Blackwell 
had left the estate and the contents of his house. 
Subsequently, as I am informed, the entire collection 
was removed to the residence of the late Rev. Lambert 
B. Foster, at Brundall, by whom it was sold by atiction, 
on his ceasing to reside in Norfolk. At that time most 
of the birds’ were in a very bad condition, and amongst 
others this bustard required renovation, and was accord- 
inely sent to Knight, of Norwich, to be “ done up ” for 
the next owner, the Rev. C. Humfrey, of Wroxham, who 
afterwards presented it, as Lord Sondes informs me, to 
the Rev. Charles Penrice, of Plumstead Hall. On the 
death of that gentleman, and the dispersion of his collec- 
tion in 1857, when, as I have before stated, the chief 
portion of his birds passed into my hands,* this bustard 
was presented by Major Penrice to Lady Sondes, and 
after having been again carefully restored by the late 
John Sayer, of Norwich, in whose shop I examined it, 
was placed in its latest resting place at Elmham Hall. 
At Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, there is a case of 
* See vol. i, p. 311, note, where this bird is, by mistake, 
described as a female, 
