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Lowestoft, Suffolk, in April, 1845, when, according to 
Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, it was observed “ walking 
slowly in a barley field, apparently intent on searching 
for food, and was killed without difficulty. The wind 
had for some time previously been easterly.” This 
specimen was for some years in the possession of Mr. 
Abraham Scales, of Pakefield, who afterwards presented 
it to Mr. Gurney. 
Next in point of date is, I believe, an immature 
specimen in the collection of the Rev. H. T. Frere, of 
Burston, who has kindly supplied me with the following 
particulars:—It was killed in February, 1850, at 
Martham, near Yarmouth, by a young farmer, who, at 
first, taking it for a heron, attempted to stuff it, and 
thus, in a very bad state, it was brought shortly after- 
wards to the late John Sayer, of Norwich, bird-stuffer, 
of whom it was purchased by Mr. Frere. There was no 
question at the time as to the bird having been recently 
killed, and the plumage is that of the first year, with a 
few light coloured feathers showing through the dark 
ground. 
Since that date, Iam not aware that any example of 
this bird has been procured in Norfolk, but Mr. H. M. 
Upcher informs me that some few years back, he believes 
in the spring of 1865, he was driving with his father, 
when, in a meadow close to the road at Warham, they 
observed a crane, so tame that they at first supposed 
it had escaped from confinement. It rose when they 
stopped to watch it, and alighted again near a run of 
water in the same meadow, but on their return soon 
after it had disappeared. Subsequently he heard of one 
having been seen in the Sandringham marshes, most 
probably the same bird, which seems happily to have 
escaped destruction. It is particularly noticeable that, 
with the exception of the Feltwell bird, all three speci- 
mens have been observed in the close vicinity of the 
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