396 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. [APPENDIX B.] 



It will be observed that no sand grouse are recorded 

 in Norfolk between the 16tli of February and the 17 th 

 October, 1889 ; this seems significant of the departure 

 of the birds which had wintered with us, and a return 

 migration in the autumn ; and, again, there seems little 

 doubt that fresh arrivals took place in the spring of the 

 present year 1890, at various points on the east coast, 

 but there is no reason to believe that there was a fresh 

 irruption from Tartary. 



In the above list thirteen are mentioned as killed and 

 some seventy as seen, not inclusive of three instances 

 in which flocks were observed but the numbers not 

 recorded. A few others were to my knowledge killed, 

 though of them I have no precise information. 



Since my last notes on the subject some seeds taken 

 from the crops of birds killed in this county and sown, 

 but at that time not satisfactorily determined, have 

 produced plants that came into flower with Mr. H. D. 

 Geld art, who was kind enough to grow them for me, 

 and proved to be Suceda maritima, Trifolium striatum, 

 T. minus, and Anthyllis vulneraria. 



Otis tarda, Great Bustard^ (vol. ii., p. 1.) On a 

 subject so superlatively interesting as the history of the 

 native race of Norfolk and Suffolk bustards, it may 

 well be expected tliat a considerable amount of addi- 

 tional information has accrued since Mr. Stevenson 

 completed his account of them (full as that was) in the 

 autumn of 1868. Indeed, he himself, in the preface to 

 the second volume of this work, written two years later 

 (in 1870), stated that he had even then obtained further 

 particulars, which he looked forward to giving in an 

 appendix to the present third volume. These par- 

 ticulars, and others which have come to my knowledge, 

 I purpose putting on record as briefly as the importance 

 of the subject will permit, following so far as is possible 

 the order of topics adopted by Mr. Stevenson. 



I know of four couple here in North Lincolnshire. A flight of 

 thirty is reported near Driffield, in Yorkshire, on the high wolds. 

 I fancy all these are fresh arrivals." 



* I wish specially to acknowledge my obligation to Professor 

 Newton for his kind assistance in compiling this account. 



