42 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
The Rev. R. Gwilt, of Icklingham, Suffolk, informs 
me that he has two eggs, laid many years ago in that 
once noted district, and that a third, from the same 
locality, was presented some forty years since to Lady 
Wilson, of Hampstead. 
A third egg in Mr. Alfred Newton’s possession was 
bought by him in 1856, at the sale of Mr. Yarrell’s 
collection. It had been taken many years before, as 
Mr. Yarrell once told Mr. Newton, somewhere near 
Bury St. Edmund’s. 
The most beautiful representations of the bustard 
are to be found in Mr. Wolf’s “ Zoological Sketches ” 
(1st Series, pl. 45) and Mr. Gould’s “Birds of Great 
Britain” (part 5.) In both cases the figures are drawn 
from careful studies, by Mr. Wolf, of birds which have 
been kept alive in the gardens of the Zoological Society, 
and almost every posture assumed by the species is 
admirably delineated by that greatest master of animal 
portraiture. 
OTIS TETRAX, Linneus. 
LITTLE BUSTARD. 
Unlike the great bustard, whose history is almost 
inseparably connected with that of the county, this 
species would seem to have passed unnoticed by Norfoll 
ornithologists until within the last forty or fifty years, 
and though Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in 1824, 
recorded two specimens as having been killed in Suffolk 
(one of them in November, 1804), they make no mention 
of its occurrence on the Norfolk coast. As more 
recent local authorities, also, content themselves with 
stating that it “has appeared in several instances,” I 
am obliged to seek for the particulars of such specimens 
from other and private sources. The earliest of which 
