124 CHARADRIUS DICNEMUS. 
§ 3527. Hight.—TVhetford Warren, Suffolk, 1852. From 
Messrs. A. & E. Newton. 
These eggs are very interesting, as being from the district where 
their exterminated neighbour, the great Bustard, last existed. 
Mr. Alfred Newton told me the other day that be thought this species 
would exist for some time at Thetford, perhaps ten years!. His 
younger brother thought they were too well preserved ever to be 
destroyed. 
§ 8528. Zhirty.—Thetford Warren, 1851-1855. From Messrs. 
A. & KE. Newton. 
This series of eggs was given tome at Elveden, on the 30th of 
January, 1856. I selected them from a large number out of which 
the Messrs. Newton had previously taken any which seemed desirable 
for their own series. During my visit at this house they have pointed 
out to me the places the birds frequent. They have also shewn me 
the field where Mr. Hoy and Mr. Salmon saw the Bustard with her 
young in 1832 (vide Mag. Nat. Hist. [vi. p. 150]) and also the ground 
on which a hen Bustard was caught in a casting-net while sitting 
on her eggs (see also Mag. Nat. Hist. [vi. p. 513]). 
(This was written without consulting the passages referred to. A fuller 
account of the two incidents is given by Mr. Stevenson (Birds of Norfolk, ii, 
pp. 5 and 21.] 
1 [Tam happy to record the falsification of my fears as above expressed more than 
fifty years since. Though Stone-Curlews are greatly reduced in number and re- 
stricted in haunt, as may be seen from what Mr. Stevenson (Birds of Norfolk, ii. 
pp- 53-57) said in 1870, there is still enough ground left suitable for their existence, 
and on that they hold out. For some years before my prognostication was uttered 
more than 3000 acres of warren, out of about 10,500, had been reclaimed, and there 
was every reason to expect that much more would beso treated. To a great extent 
this has been done, but I learn from friends who have visited the district of late 
years that a fair number of Curlews still breed there. Their persistence is chiefly 
due to their eggs being the perquisite of the warreners, who in consequence are 
careful to protect the birds while breeding as well as to see that the stock is kept 
up. How many nests, if nests they are to be called, a pair may have in the course 
of a season I was never able to ascertain, but I think certainly three or even four, 
if the earlier-laid eggs be taken, and it is for the warrener’s interest that each pair 
should finally bring off its brcod.—Eb. ] 
