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keeper, " Larry " Banvill ; " which," as Mr. Lloyd remarks, 

 " was no slight sacrifice for a Norfolk game-preserver." 



Capercaillies were reintroduced at Taymouth in the 

 autumn of 1837 and spring of 1838. In all, according to 

 some accounts, forty-eight birds were obtained in Sweden, 

 through the instrumentality of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, of 

 Northrepps Hall and Cromer Hall, in Norfolk, and the 

 energy of Mr. Lloyd, the well-known Swedish sportsman and 

 naturalist, materially assisted by Mr. Lawrance Banvill, Sir 

 Thomas Fowell Buxton's head gamekeeper in Norfolk, who 

 went twice over to Sweden and brought over the birds to 

 Taymouth, and by Mr. James Guthrie, head gamekeeper at 

 Taymouth, who carefully tended the old, and successfully 

 reared the young, birds. 



According to a letter from Mr. Edward Buxton, published 

 in Blaine's ' Encyc. of Rural Sports' (p. 814), a previous 

 attempt to rear the birds had been made in Norfolk by Sir 

 Thomas. A hen bred there, but all the young ones died. 

 Several hens and a cock had been kept at Cromer Hall, where 

 Sir Fowell was then living. This must have been about the 

 year 1823, a few years previous to the publication of Mr. 

 Lloyd's first large work — ' The Field Sports of the North of 

 Europe' (q. v., vol. i. p. 264).^ Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me 

 that there is a hen bird stuffed in the Norfolk Museum, which 

 belonged to Sir Fowell Buxton, and which was doubtless one 

 of these birds, or one of those brought over later by Larry. 



Mr. Henry Stevenson of Norwich gives me a further note 

 from his journals, taken down by him from Larry's own oral 

 communication, in the year 1857, to the effect that " a pair 

 were turned off at Sir Fowell's place at Beeston, but soon 

 died — he believes choked in some way. . . . Beeston, Cromer, 

 and Northrepps, are all adjoining parishes, or within a mile 

 or two of each other," so that it is not perhaps of great im- 

 1 Vide also Loudon's 'Mag. of Nat. Hist.,' vol. iii. p. 157. 



