vl PREFACE. 
Swaffham tracts; and in expressing my warmest 
thanks to those who have so readily communicated 
all the information in their power on this most inter- 
esting subject, I have to regret the loss—while the 
concluding portion of this volume has been passing 
through the press—of two valued contributors, the 
Rev. Henry Dugmore, of Beachamwell, and Mr. Anthony 
Hamond, of Westacre, whose reminiscences as sports- 
men and naturalists have been of essential value to 
this work, and whose courtesy on all occasions in 
furthering its objects is held in very grateful remem- 
brance. 
Owing to more recent information respecting the 
late Rev. R. Hamond’s Bustards, at Congham House, 
I have found it necessary to cancel my first description 
of them,* but the dates and particulars as now given 
are, I believe, fully reliable. I find, however, that I 
have by no means exhausted the list of Norfolk killed 
Bustards, as even within the last few months I have 
ascertained the existence of others, which will be de- 
scribed in an appendix to the third volume. 
As regards the extension of the work, I may add 
that the favourable criticism that has, at all hands, 
been bestowed upon those biographical sketches, 
whereby in my first issue I sought to interest even 
non-ornithological readers in the life history of our 
“feathered favourites” left me no option but to describe, 
in like manner, the more familiar forms amongst 
our waders and wild fowl, and thus while my 
original notes have been entirely rewritten, the greatly 
increased amount of materials at my disposal has 
necessitated either an additional volume, or so con- 
siderable a curtailment of the remaining portions as 
would have destroyed entirely the uniformity of the 
* A few copies of the Bustard paper, in a pamphlet form, were 
printed for private circulation only. 
