LITTLE BUSTARD. AD5 
In November, 1838, as I am informed by the Rey. 
Thomas Fulcher, a fine female in his possession was 
shot in a turnip-field, at Old Buckenham; and on the 
21st of January, 1842, as I learn from Mr. Foster, of 
Wisbech, another female (as ascertained by dissection) 
was shot on one of the washes, near Welney, on the 
extreme western limits of the county. This bird, the 
one referred to by Mr. Lubbock as killed near Wisbech, 
is now in the museum of that town. 
For the next ten years, I know of no other occur- 
rence of this species either in Norfolk or Suffolk, but on 
the 29th of December, 1853,* a male in winter plumage, 
now in my possession, was shot during very severe 
weather, in a turnip-field, by the road side between 
Winterton and Yarmouth. This bird, which was 
brought to me in the flesh, was in good condition, 
the stomach literally crammed with vegetable matter, 
apparently fragments of some large leaf with a rough 
surface and a serrated edge. Several others were also 
killed about the same time in different counties in 
England, as recorded in the “ Zoologist”’ for 1854. 
Again, on the 4th of March, 1858, a fine adult 
female, which was purchased by Mr. J. H. Gurney, was 
shot in the Southtown marshes, at Gorleston, near 
Yarmouth. This bird was also in fine condition, the 
stomach filled with various kinds of green food, by far 
the larger portion consisting of a long fine grass, 
apparently from the marshes, having a brackish odour, 
and mixed with this, and matted together, was a species 
of Conferva from the ditches. Two flowers of the 
common daisy (Bellis perennis) were plainly discernable, 
as also a narrow scolloped leaf, resembling cat’s-ear 
(Hypocheris glabra), and besides these a small fragment 
of the water-ranunculus (Ranunculus aquatilis), were all 
* The same recorded by Morris (“ British Birds,” vol. iv., p. 8.) 
