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§ 1609. /S/cZ'.— Bought at Eton, 1855. 



[§ 1010. 0/^e.— Shouldham Thorpe, Norfolk. From Mr. J. 

 Baker, 1850.] 



[^ 1611. 0//e.— Whittlesea. From Mr. J. Baker, 1850.] 



[§ 1612. /S'/.^^.— Feltwell Fen, 25 May, 1852. "A. & E. N." 



From four nests. Five of the six eggs were taken by my brother Edward 

 and myself, the nests having been shewn to us by a lad living at Poppy lot', 

 who called the bird " Reeler " — its usual name in the Fen-country . I believe 

 he found all of them by watching the birds at sunrise.] 



[§ 1613. Tiro.— FeltweW Fen, 1853. From Mr. Newcome. 



From different nests. Obtained by Mr. Newcome from the lad who shewed 

 us the nests the year before.] 



[§ 1614. Four.— Fe\i\\ ell Fen, 1854. 



From a nest of five taken by the lad before mentioned.] 



[§ 1615. T/irce.—\\ icken Fen, 30 May, 1856. From Mr. 

 Salvm. 



From a nest of five.] 



* [The orthography of this name is uncertain. It cannot have to do with poppy, 

 and I am inclined to think it may be connected with Popeler, the old name of what 

 we now call Spoonbill, for which bird the place, even in my recollection, would 

 have afforded a suitable habitation. In 1852 this part of the fen was still prac- 

 tically uudrained, and covered with a thick growth of high sedge, chiefly Cladium 

 mariscus, broken here and there by sallow-bushes, singly or in clumps. Only a few 

 years before it had been a great resort of Harriers, Circus cyaneKs and C. cineraceiis ; 

 but persistent shooting of them from the nest had put an end to that, though three 

 eggs of the latter species were taken there in 1834 (§ 467). The Short-eared Owl, 

 too, habitually bred there (§ 520) ; and we were told, no doubt truly, that, perhaps 

 not more than sixty years before, the sallows in that or an adjoining piece of fen 

 supported a Heronry, whence originated that now existing at Didlington.— En.] 



