OTIS DYBOWSKII. 
of the Rey. W. Turner, and was given by that gentleman to Mr. Clarke a few 
years afterwards. Mr. Turner (fide Clarke) had several Norfolk Bustards’ 
eggs in his collection.” Some days later Col. Feilden wrote that he had again 
been to see Mr. Clarke about the Bustard’s ege, but that it was difficult to 
fix his memory—“ he is not really such an old man, but he seems to have had 
a terrible stroke”; and he could give no particulars as to what Mr. Turner, the 
rector of Barholme in Lincolnshire, told him of the history of the Norfolk 
Bustard’s egg in his possession, but, so far as his memory went, Mr. Turner 
had two if not three more Norfolk Bustards’ eggs in his collection. On the 
18th of January, 1886, my brother Edward and I went to Yarmouth, and 
Col, Feilden took me to call on Mr, Clarke, who very readily let him shew me 
the collecticn—he himself being in the room, but confined to his chair or the 
sofa. I saw this egg, but I could not get Mr. Clarke to say whether the 
handwriting upoa it was his own or not. He had previously told Col. Feilden 
that it was, but he had much difficulty in understanding what was said to him 
or making his replies intelligible. He said, however, and this is important, 
that this egg and those in Mr. Turner’s collection were bought of some one, a 
dealer he thought, at Norwich. Nothing more could he tell me. It was un- 
furtunately not a good day with him, but he evidently remembered several of 
the specimens in the collection, and this one, I thought, certainly. Mr. Clarke, 
who was formerly of Emmanuel College, died in 1889, and thereupon I opened 
communication with his representatives, Mr. Southwell most kindly aiding 
in the negotiation, which eventually terminated in his procuring this 
specimen from Mr, Clarke's widow, and sending it to me in 189]. It is 
without the slightest doubt the very egg I saw, with Col. Feilden, in 
Mr. Clarke’s possession and presence in 1886. I have no reason to doubt that 
the handwriting upon it is Mr. Clarke’s, though I could not get him to say so 
to me, as he had before said to Col. Feilden. It is extremely unlikely that 
anyone else should have been at the trouble of writing upon it, or that if any- 
one had been so disposed, Mr. Clarke would have allowed it to be done. The 
dealer, if such he was, at Norwich, from whom Mr. Turner obtained it, may 
have been Hunt, long well-known as a birdstuffer there and author of an 
unfinished ‘ History of British Birds.’ He always bore a yood character. | 
OTIS DYBOWSKII, Taczanowski. 
[§ 3214. Ove.—Siberia. From Dr. Dybowski, through 
M. Jules Verreaux, 1873. 
Under the name of Otis tarda, for the Eastern form was not differentiated 
till a year later (Journ. fiir Orn. 1874, p. 331), Dr. Dybowski gave (op. cit. 
18738, p. 100) a description and measurements of the eggs of three nests of this 
bird, one of which seems to have contained three eggs. The specimen I 
received from M. Verreaux bears a label, apparently by the Doctor, on which 
js written “ Ot’s—Soodvok,’ which last word looks like the local name uf the 
bird, spelt Sooda/: by Pallas (Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 97). ] 
