404 BIRDS OF NOEt'OLK. [APPENDIX B.] 



" I was the other day at Eriswell [in Suffolk] where 

 I saw a hen bustard which the keeper had taken in a 

 rabbit trap ahve. The bird has lost one foot and an 

 eye, but will, I think, make a good specimen should 

 your Museum directors wish to purchase it." (See 

 " Trans, of the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc," ii., 

 p. 612.) 



It is probable from the above that the writer had 

 seen the example in the flesh, and if so the date of its 

 occurrence,* which hitherto has been doubtful, is fixed, 

 and accords with that given by Bishop Stanley. 



Another Eriswell specimen seems to exist, as Mr. 

 Stevenson was informed by Mr. Harting, who saw it at 

 East Acton in 1869, and subsequently learnt from its 

 then possessor, the Rev. J. N. Ouvry-North, that it had 

 been bought by his brother at the sale of the effects of 

 the late Mr. James Gibson, formerly treasurer of the New 

 England Company, which owned the chief part of the 

 parish of Eriswell, and that it was believed to have been 

 shot there by the gamekeeper, Thomas Rutherford, 

 about the year 1818. 



Of the two eggs mentioned (vol, ii., p. 39) as having 

 belonged to Mr. Salmon, one given by him to Mr. 

 Wolley remains, as before stated, in Professor Newton's 

 possession ; but the second, instead of having disap- 

 peared, as believed by Mr. Stevenson, is fortunately still 

 safe in the Salmon collection, at the rooms of the 

 Linnsean Society, in Burlington House, where Mr. 

 Edward Bidwell found it, as he has reported (" Trans, 

 of the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc," iv., p. 142). 

 That gentleman has also recorded {torn, cit., p. 141) the 

 existence of an eg^ in Mr. Crowley's possession, which, 

 at the sale of Mr. Heysham's collection (16th May, 

 1859), was bought by Canon Tristram, and is doubtless 

 a Norfolk specimen sent by Hoy to Heysham, as a label 

 upon it in the latter's handwriting testifies. 



* Two misprints were made in Mr. Stevenson's notice of this 

 example (vol. ii., p. 36). In line 10," p. 3" should be p. Ill, and 

 in line 11 " Cresswell " should be Cresswall. 



