[appendix B.] birds op NORFOLK. 405 



The specimen formerly possessed by Mr. Scales (vol. 

 ii., p. 40) perished in the fire that destroyed the rest of 

 his collection, as elsewhere recorded (" Ti'ans. of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc," iv., p. 96), and that 

 stated {torn, cii.) to belong to Mr. Coldham, of Anmer, 

 was given, as Captain Mason informs me, to his sister, 

 Miss Mason, after whose death in Scotland man y year 

 ago it was missing, and his efforts to find it have 

 failed. He thinks it must have been taken not 'later 

 than 1820.* 



The Norwich Museum contains two specimens, both 

 of which may be of Norfolk origin, though beyond 

 the fact that one of them, mentioned before (vol. ii,, 

 p. 40), is believed to have been added by Mr. 

 Salmon in the year 1835, when he arranged the 

 eggs in the Museum, and that the other, which is 

 unblown, was received in 1881 with the Whitear 

 collection, nothing is known of their history. In 1885 Col. 

 Feilden discovered in the possession of the late Mr. John 

 Clarke, of Wigston Hall, Leicestershire, but then living 

 at Great Yarmouth, another unrecorded specimen in- 

 scribed "Norfolk, 1824," which Mr. Clarke said was 

 given to him a few years after that date by the late 

 Eev. W. W. Turner. Mr. Turner had two more in his 

 collection, which is now in the possession of his daughter, 

 as Professor Newton subsequently learned from that 

 lady. 



One occurrence of the bustard in this countyf re- 

 mains to be noticed, and that was attended by some 

 circumstances so remarkable as to render it almost unique 

 in the annals of British ornithology. Though on the 

 birds first appearance hostile steps were taken against it, 

 they were fortunately ineffectual until better counsels pre- 

 vailed, as they speedily did, and the visitor then received 

 the utmost consideration from Mr. H. M. Upcher, on 



* Captain Mason informs me also that in the time of James 

 Coldham, Esq., nearly one hundred years ago, a bustard was shot 

 on Anmer Field by a painter from Lynn, named Raven, who was 

 doing some work on the house. 



t According to Mr. Howlett, of Newmarket (" Field," 16th 

 August, 1873), a bustard had been recently seen on the warrens at 

 Wangford and Lakenheath, in Suffolk. The report may well have 

 been true, but nothing more is known of the bird. 



