246 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
In Mr. E. 8. Preston’s possession at Yarmouth is a 
specimen formerly belonging to his uncle Mr. C. Preston, 
of that town, which was shot on Breydon in May, 1823, 
by old John Thomas, a noted gunner on those waters ; 
the same bird referred to by the late Mr. Hoy, in a letter 
to Selby, as published by Dr. Bree in the “ Field” (vol. 
xxx., p. 385), in that gentleman’s description of Mr. 
Hoy’s collection at Stoke Nayland. 
Again in 1824, according to the Messrs. Paget, 
another was shot “two miles up the North river” 
(Bure), which, at the time their “Sketch” was pub- 
lished, was said to be in Mrs. Baker’s collection.* In 
all probability this was the same bird which, as Mr. 
Rising informs me, made its appearance at Horsey, 
for one day only, in the summer of 1824, and escaped 
uninjured. It is also, I imagine, the same which is 
thus incidentally referred to by Yarrell—“ My own 
specimen, from which the figure and description here 
given was derived, was obtained in the London market 
in July, 1824, and was sent up for sale from Lincoln- 
shire; while this bird was in the hands of Mr. Lead- 
beater for preservation, another was received from 
Norfolk. In the intestines of this last specimen, which 
I examined, was a species of tape-worm six inches in 
length, broad, flat, and jointed.” It is also stated by 
Yarrell, on the authority of Mr. Lubbock, that “a pair 
were shot by Mr. Salmon, at Stoke Ferry, in the spring 
ungraceful. The young stilt, he says, “is able to walk almost 
immediately on leaving the egg; one we found was capable of 
moving about, while the other three were struggling to free 
themselves from the shell. The nest is composed of a few bits of 
dead reed or grass. The complement of eggs laid by one bird is 
four.” 
* This is no doubt the specimen mentioned by Hunt in 1829, 
as in Mr. C. 8S. Girdlestone’s collection at Yarmouth, which passed 
into the hands of his sister Mrs. John Baker. 
