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youth wholly unacquainted with its value, and who was 

 quite as likely to have plucked and eaten, or thrown the 

 prize away (the fate of many a valuable specimen), as to 

 have placed it in the hands of the Rev. E. Hankinson, 

 to whom the Lynn museum is indebted for this most 

 interesting specimen, beautifully mounted by Mr. 

 Leadbeater." It had been previously skinned, however, 

 by a local bird-stuffer, and the carcase unfortunately 

 was not preserved. It was solitary when shot, but 

 at least one other, apparently of the same species, 

 was observed in the neighbourhood about the same 

 time, though not procured. Mr. Currie's letter respect- 

 ing this remarkable addition to the avi-fauna of 

 Norfolk, was followed by a most elaborate and 

 interesting paper* in the same journal ("Ibis," 1860, 

 p. 105), by Mr. T. J. Moore, keeper of the free public 

 and Derby museum, Liverpool, accompanied with a 

 description and coloured plate of the Tremadoc bird. 

 From the above source, and the comprehensive and most 

 admirable history of the "Irruption of Pallas's Sand- 

 Grouse in 1863," published by Mr. Alfred Newton in the 

 "Ibis" for 1864f (p. 185), I am enabled to give the follow- 

 ing brief particulars of the true habitat of this Asiatic 



* This had been previously read before section D of the British 

 Association at Aberdeen. 



f This paper is accompanied by a " sketch map" of Europe, on 

 which is marked the name of each locality where this species had 

 been observed, the date being affixed in some cases, and the 

 probable direction of flight indicated by faint dotted lines. The 

 large mass of names (almost too densely crowded to be properly 

 legible), thus fringing, as it were, the entire eastern coast of Great 

 Britain, the "confusion worse confounded," in the counties of 

 Norfolk and Suffolk, is very remarkable ; and considering the extent 

 and value of the statistics contained in this paper, collected and 

 arranged in a geographical series with no small amount of labour, 

 it is much to be regretted that it has not since been re-published in 

 a form more accessible to the general reader. 



