70 OTIS TARDA. 
§ 3195. Mine.—Saxony, 1855. From Herr Brandt, 1856. 
Out of eleven bought by me from forty specimens, which I un- 
packed and carefully picked over [at Hamburg], after which Mr. 
Simpson selected some. I marked all mine at the time in Herr 
Brandt’s blue ink, for he said they were all eggs of the preceding season, 
and came from Leipzig. With these Bustards’ eggs were packed one 
or two Cranes’. 
[§ 3196. Onve.—Germany. From Mr. Reynolds, not later than 
1845. 
The private mark on this ege shews that it came from Herr Brandt, and 
therefore most likely from Saxony. | 
[§ 3197. One.—Andalusia. From Mr. Powys, 1855. 
Tlow Mr. Powys (afterwards Lord Lilford) obtained this egg 1 know not. 
He had not then been to Spain. | 
[§ 3198. One—* Near Bury St. Edmund’s,” Suffolk. From 
Mr. Yarrell’s Collection, 1856. 
Bought by me at the sale of Mr. Yarrell’s Collection in Mr. Stevens’s auction 
rooms on the 5th of December, 1856, where it formed part of Lot 373. This 
egg, Mr. Yarrell told me two or three years before, was taken a long time since, 
perhaps thirty years ago, or more, ‘near Bury St. Edmund’s,’—at least he had 
it from some one living there or in that neighbourhood, and he was informed 
it was certainly taken in that district. He could not then remember the name 
of the person from whom he had it, ner could he when I last saw him, and 
the egg, in July 1856; but he promised me he would try to recollect, and if 
he could, would let me know. TI never, however, heard anything from him on 
the subject, and he died unexpectedly at Yarmouth on the first of September 
following. As he was quite certain, however, that the egg had been laid in 
Suffolk, I made a point of buying it at the sale, which I did fora few shillings, 
as probably no one present, beside myself, and perhaps Mr. Hewitson or 
Mr, Salmon, knew its history, I think it was most likely from Icklingham 
or North Stow—those being the parts of the district most affected by the 
Bustard—and of those perhaps the latter the more likely, since its post town 
was Bury, whereas that of the former was Mildenhall. This, however, is quite 
conjectural, and there were several other places at that time in the neighbour- 
hood where the Bustard annually bred.] 
