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bills frequented the lake at Holkham, and being 
unmolested, Lord Leicester on one occasion walked 
close up to them. 
1853-4. Somewhere about this date a specimen in 
Mr. Newcome’s collection, at Feltwell, was procured in 
Hockwold fen. 
1855. May 14th. A fine old male killed at Stiffkey, 
near Wells. 
1859. May 4th. A male in very perfect plumage 
shot at Hickling. The long crest of this bird was buffy- 
white and a rich broad band of buff-colour extended 
across the breast and formed a collar, as it were, round 
the lower part of the neck, which was deepest in colour 
near the points of the wings. The under parts were 
also faintly marked with buff on the tips of the 
feathers. I saw this specimen in the flesh, and was 
struck with the richness of its colouring, but on seeing 
it again a week or so later, the buff tints had almost 
faded away, and I doubt not after a time would be 
scarcely perceptible. 
1860. July 6th. One shot on Breydon; sex not noted. 
1862. May. A female in Captain Longe’s collec- 
tion, shot on Breydon; and a male from the same 
locality, in that month, was sent up to Leadenhall 
Market with greenshanks and turnstones. 
1863. May 15th. A young female in pure white 
plumage and scarcely any crest, was shot at Hickling. 
Early in the same month two or three were also 
seen on Breydon; and a magnificent pair were killed 
at one shot between Lowestoft and Southwold, in 
Suffolk,* on the lst of May, which were preserved by 
* During the last four or five years Mr. Fenwick Hele has 
recorded the occurrence of this species almost every spring at 
Aldeburgh and Thorpe Mere, on the Suffolk coast. Vide “ Field” 
(June 25th, 1864, p. 443; July 28th, 1866, p. 81; and July 18th, 
1867, p. 31). 
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