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acre field. We have, however, Mr. Hamond's own 

 statement in writing that all the bustards represented 

 in the lithograph [vol. ii., p. 34] were shot by him." 



In 1872 Mr. Stevenson succeeded in tracing the 

 history of two more specimens which had been in Mr. 

 Eobert Hamond's hands. In August, 1869, Mr. Richard 

 Enfield, of Nottingham, wrote to Mr. J. W. Dowson, 

 who was interested in the Norwich Museum, informing 

 him that at the recent sale of Sir Robert Clifton's effects, 

 at Clifton, near Nottingham, a fine male bustard, in 

 good preservation, and said to have been obtained in 

 Norfolk, had been bought by the Rev. H. Bell, who 

 would have no objection to sell it to the Norwich 

 Museum. Mr. Reeve, the curator of the Museum, 

 tells me he well remembers this offer being brougrht 

 before the committee, who did not, however, accept it, 

 and nothing more was heard of the specimen until some 

 three years after, when Mr. Stevenson, on enquiry, 

 found it had passed into the possession of Mr. James 

 H. Lee, of Linton Field, Nottingham, who confirmed 

 the information previously obtained, and subsequently 

 sent Mr. Stevenson a copy of the inscription at the back 

 of the case, in the handwriting of its former owner (the 

 uncle to the Sir Robert Clifton just named), as follows : — 



" Male and female. Presented by the late Rev. 

 Robt. Hamond, Swaffham, Norfolk. I beheve shot there 

 A great friend of mine." 



As the case from its size could never have held more 

 than this one specimen, and it was clear from the in- 

 scription that two birds had been sent, Mr. Stevenson 

 set himself to find the missing female, and soon after 

 learned from the late Dr. Beverley R. Morris that it was 

 in his possession, having been bought at the Clifton sale 

 by a Mr. Warwick, of Nottingham, who, in the spring 

 of 1872, sold it to a Mr. Yarley, from whom Dr. Morris 

 had it. This specimen was in the possession of Dr. 

 Morris's widow, who is very recently deceased, while the 

 male remains in that of the family of Mr. Lee, who is 

 also dead.'^ 



*■* Mr. Stevenson's enquiries about other reputed Norfolk speci- 

 mens produced, in 1869, a letter from Mr. Thomas Stubbs, of Alma 

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