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§ 3191. One.—Hungary, 1850. From Mr. Cochrane, through 
Mr. Hancock, 1853. 
Mr. Hancock has brought this to me this 25 March, 1853. 
[Mr. A. Hl. Cochrane, a friend of Mr. Hancock’s, brought many eggs from 
Hungary in 1850 (ef. §§ 281-283).] 
§ 3192. One——Great Massingham, Norfelk, 1833. From 
Mr. Salmon, 1853. 
_ This exceedingly valuable egg has been most kindly presented to 
me this day (March 8, 1853) by Mr. J. D. Salmon, who is at present 
living at the Wenham Lake Ice Company’s establishment nearly 
opposite St. Clement Dane’s in the Strand. It is one of those taken 
at Massingham Heath in 1833, of which two became the property of 
Mr. Salmon and have remained in his possession since that time until 
this day. The circumstance is mentioned by Mr. Salmon in the 
‘ Magazine of Natural-History ’ (vol. vii. p. 458), in a communication 
dated Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, Dec. 28, 1833. It appears there were 
five eggs, the produce of three birds. Of these five [eggs] Mr. Salmon 
saw only three, and he does not remember anything about the other 
two. One day, as he informs me, he saw in the house of Mr. Ashbey 
of Lynn, a Bustard’s egg, at which he expressed surprise and pleasure, 
when Mr. Ashbey said he had two more, and he went into another 
room and took them off a chimney-piece, and gave them to Mr. Salmon, 
who took them away with him, and after blowing them very carefully 
returned one very well packed to Mr. Ashbey. Of this one 
Mr. Salmon does not know the subsequent history, and Mr. Ashbey 
is dead. The other two Mr. Salmon retained in his possession, as 
stated in the ‘ Magazine of Natural History.’ Mr. Salmon says they 
had probably been laid three or four months : they were full of little 
coagulations when he came to blow them, but he thinks it is a 
proof that they were good eggs when laid, and also that they had 
not been sat upon, otherwise they would have been much more 
decayed. ‘They were all slightly discoloured on the side upon which 
they had rested: the one given to me appears less so than the other’. 
Mr, Salmon heard at the time who took the eggs, but does not 
1 [This is now in the possession of the Linnean Scciety, to which Mr. Salmon 
‘bequeathed his collection of eggs.—Ep. | 
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