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chased by Mr. Borrer, at Cambridge. Mr. Wood's bird, 

 killed at Morston (a not unlikely locality ), had no 

 doubt travelled beyond its ordinary beat, in search of 

 those companions whose fate had been sealed before its 

 own, and of other stragglers, not necessarily migrants, 

 Mr. Lubbock states (1845) " some twenty-five years back 

 several were observed in Wilby field, between Attle- 

 burgh and Harling, within twenty miles of Norwich." 

 To refer, also, once more to the bird mentioned 

 by the same author as " taken some fifty or sixty 

 years back, at Sprowston, within two miles of this city, 

 by means of greyhounds," it appears quite as probable, 

 from the circumstances attending its capture which 

 occurred on a " very windy morning after a tempestuous 

 night" that it had been caught by the gale and thus 

 transferred from the western to the eastern side of the 

 county,* as that it had arrived as a foreign visitant 

 on our coast through the same influences. 



It is, however, as a migrant only that the bustard 

 now holds a place in the list of Norfolk Birds ; and, 

 considering the range of this species on the continent 

 at the present time, it is rather a matter of surprise 

 that more stragglers should not reach the British 

 Islands, described by Mr. Gouldf as " their western 



* In White's " Gazetteer of Norfolk" (3rd ed.), a certain locality 

 adjoining the parish of Forncett St. Peter, some twelve miles 

 from Norwich, is described as " Bustard's Green," but I cannot 

 learn that there are any ornithological associations connected with 

 it to account for its singular title. 



f Mr. Gould, in his " Birds of Great Britain," gives the par- 

 ticulars of eight migratory specimens killed in different parts of 

 England since the species became extinct in this county. One, a 

 female, at the Lizard, Cornwall, in March, 1843 ; another near St. 

 Austell, in 1854 ; a female, in 1850, at Lydd, in Romney-marsh ; 

 another in the parish of Bratton-Clovelly, North Devon ; a female 

 at Leeshill, Cumberland, in March, 1854; one at Hungerford, in 

 January, 1856 ; a young male at Eomuey, in 1859 ; and in February, 



