BIRD NOTES 



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lookout for such to supply collectors, bird stuffers, 

 and in some instances interested parties outside the 

 town. Placed beside the figures above mentioned, 

 the prices made by rare birds in recent years will 

 show the almost fictitious value resulting from in- 

 creased competition or rarity. The difference, even 

 in ten or twelve years, in prices made will be shown 

 in the following lists : 



1. Overend's sale of uncased local birds, 16th June 

 1876 



Rough - legged Hobby 

 Osprey . . . 



Orange-legged Hobby, 



Ruff and Reeve . . 



Hobby . . . 



Brunnick's Guillemot . 



Hoopoe (male) . . 



Bittern (male) . . 



Black - throated Diver 

 (male) . . . 



Spoonbill (male). . 



*. d. 



180 



o o 

 60 

 60 



036 

 0130 



o 10 o 



u o 



1 6 o 



Button's Skua (male) . o 14 o 

 Eared Grebe (male) .090 

 Red-necked Phalarope 



(male) . . .0160 

 Grey Phalarope and 



Purple-Sandpiper .090 

 Fork-tailed Petrel .050 

 Avocet . . -35 

 White Stork . . 1150 

 Shorelark . . . o z 6 



There were 96 uncased lots, numbering in all 180 

 specimens. 



. The Rising Collection at Horsey was dispersed 

 in 1885, when 142 lots realised <340; a few are 

 figured below. Most of the birds were in cases. 



