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son of a farmer then living there, and, in the very same 

 year, I find a record in the late Mr. Lombe's notes 

 of birds not in his collection, of one obtained near 

 Blofield. An adult female in my own possession, 

 formerly in the collection of the late Kev. C. Penrice, 

 of Plumstead, was, I have no doubt, procured in this 

 county, and it is by no means improbable that it may be 

 the Blofield bird above referred to ; but, unfortunately, 

 although Mr. Penrice's birds were known to have been 

 collected chiefly in this county, no memoranda as to 

 dates or localities were attached to the numerous cases.* 

 In the Norwich Museum (No. 155. a) is an adult male, 

 said to have been killed near North Walsham, and in 

 Mr. Gurney's collection, at Catton, is another Yarmouth 

 specimen, formerly belonging to the late Mr. Stephen 

 Miller, besides which Mr. Lubbock mentions three 

 "one killed at Holkham,f another at Antingham, and 

 one, in immature plumage, at Acle, in 1832," and adds, 

 "the wing of a bird of this species was shown me, 

 which was picked up dead upon the beach at Brancaster 

 many years back." 



* The chief portion of this large collection came into my pos- 

 session in 1857, when Mr. Chas. Morse succeeded the late Mr. Pen- 

 rice, at Plumstead Hall ; but at that time some of the rarer local 

 specimens had been given away, including a female of the great 

 bustard, now, I believe, preserved at Elmham Hall. Amongst those 

 purchased by myself were specimens of the osprey, goshawk 

 (adult), hen harrier (adult male), marsh harrier, buzzards, com- 

 mon, rough-legged, and honey (all immature) ; golden oriole 

 (female), roller, eared grebe (summer plumage), long-tailed ducks 

 (immature), smew (adult male), white-eyed pochard, &c., &c., with 

 most of the common species of British birds ; but beyond some 

 half-dozen of the best and rarest, I found it useless to attempt 

 preserving them, having been badly stuffed in the first instance, 

 and sadly injured by neglect. 



f No doubt the same bird recorded in Mr. Dowell's MS. notes, 

 as shot " at Holkham, on the lake, hawking for flies, some years 

 ago." 



