112 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



to go and look at the Bustards. About thirty or forty were accustomed 

 to be seen together in winter at Elveden and Barnham in 1812 or a 

 little earlier, when a shepherd's boy caught a young bird at the latter 

 place. No doubt this drove moved about from place to place in the Breck 

 district (Stev. B. of N. ii., 18, 19). A female was purchased as a Norfolk 

 specimeu by the Rev. C. J. Lucas at the sale of Mr. Sealy's Collection ; 

 Mr. Stevenson however has carefully traced the bird, and has discovered 

 that it was killed at Eriswell about 1*827 (Stev. B. ofN. ii.. 35, 36 ; Lucas 

 in lift.). Mr.Waddington and Mr. Newton riding one day over Icklingham 

 Heath towards Elveden about 1812 or 1814, came upon a flock of 

 twenty-four Bustards, which rose on the wing before them (Stev. 

 B. of N. ii., 19; Memoir of Sir H. E. Buribury, Bart, by Sir 

 0. J. F. Bunbury, p. 104. Privately printed, Loud. 1868). Icklingham 

 was long famous as a station for Bustards. From a bird killed there 

 and sent to him by Mr. D. Gwilt, Edwards made the drawing now in ■ 

 possession of the Rev. R. Gwilt at Icklingham, which was engraved 

 for his Natural History, p. 73 in a plate dated 1746 (Stev. B. of N. ii. 

 18). In September 1813 Sir A. Grant shot at a young Bustard there, 

 which was caught in a rabbit-trap soon afterwards (id. 14, Note). The 

 Bustard still bred there in 1824 (S. and W. u. s.). A female from 

 Icklingham, no date (Cambridge Museum), formerly in the Collection of 

 the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Stev. B. ofN. ii., 37; C. B. !). A 

 hen was seen in July or August 1832 on Icklingham Heath by Mr. 

 Thornhill, (Stev. B. of N. ii., 5 from Newton), and two eggs were taken 

 there many years ago, which are now in possession of Rev. R. Gwilt ; 

 another egg from the same locality was presented to Lady Wilson of 

 Charlton House, Blackheath. She died in 1818, and it then belonged to 

 her grandson Sir W. Trevelyan, Bart. He wrote to Mr. Stevenson that 

 it is darker in colour and much more mottled than the specimen figured 

 by Hewitson (Stev. B. of N. ii., 42 and MS. ; see also J. D. in Loudon's 

 Mag. N. H. vi. (1833) 1 50). A specimen received by Mr. Thornhill from 

 Cavenham has been long preserved at Riddlesworth Hall (Stev. B. of N. 

 ii., 37) ; his grandson, Sir T. Thornhill, tells me that the bird was trapped, 

 he does not know the precise date(C. B.)! Found on Newmarket Heath in 

 the 17th century (Merrett's Pinax 173, Lond. 1667; Wilhighby's Ornith. 

 129, Lond. 1676; Ray's Eng. Tr. 178, Lond. 1678). A male bird was 

 surprised by a dog on Newmarket Heath in the autumn of 1819, and 

 sold in Leadenliall Market for five guineas (Graves' Brit. Orn. u. s.). The 

 late Duke of Queensbury (died 1810) had three pinioned on his lawn at 

 Newmarket (Hodson in Loudon's Mag. N. H. vi. (1833) 513). 



8. An egg found near Bury, probably at North Stowe or Icklingham, 

 formerly in Mr. Yarrell's Collection, is now in that of Prof. Newton (A. 

 Newton v. v.); tradition says that there was a drove of thirty or forty birds 

 at North Stowe in the last century, and eye witnesses testify to nearly as 

 many in the beginning of the present (Stev. B. of N. ii. 18. See above 

 under No. 7). J. Wastell, Esq., had a pair a long time in his garden at 

 Risby, (Hodson u. s.). One was shot at Norton about 1 850 by Mr. Joseph 



