36 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



Richard Griffin* (now residing at Wey mouth), from 

 a bird-staffer, named Bilson, at Bury St. Edmund's, 

 whose son subsequently informed Mr. A. Newton that 

 the bird in question had been brought to his father by a 

 labouring man, and was killed near Lakenheath. From 

 further enquiries made by Mr. Newton, it would appear 

 to have been one trapped at Eriswell, in Suffolk, about 

 1827 or 1829, by a man named Gathercole, and is, 

 probably, the specimen mentioned by Bishop Stanley 

 (" Familiar History of Birds," vol. ii., p. 3, 2nd ed.) as 

 having been trapped at "Cresswell" an obvious mis- 

 print for Eriswell, near Mildenhall. This female remained 

 in the Norwich Museum until Mr. Scales' s fine pair were 

 presented by Mr. J. H. Gurney, when, as a duplicate, 

 it was exchanged for several foreign bird-skins, and 

 thus passed into the hands of Mr. W. E. Cator, then 

 an undergraduate of Queen's College, Cambridge, 

 who subsequently parted with it to Mr. A. F. Sealy. 

 During that gentleman's absence from England, in 

 1865, I first saw this bird in the charge of Mr. F. 

 Barlow, of Cambridge, and recognised it at once when 

 sent to Norwich by Mr. Lucas, in 1867, to be re-stuffed. 

 On enquiry I ascertained from Mr. Lucas that he had 

 lately purchased the bird in London, at the sale of part 

 of Mr. Sealy 's collection, consequent on his continued 

 residence abroad. Mr. Knight, of Norwich, who has 

 been for many years birdstuffer to the Norwich Museum, 

 examined Mr. Lucas's bird at my request, and from the 

 manner in which one leg had been mended with black 

 cord, and other peculiarities, was perfectly sure of its 

 identity with the original museum specimen. 



The male bird killed at Horsey, since the death of 



* In a letter lately received from Mr. Griffin confirming these 

 particulars, that gentleman also adds that an egg, quite ready for 

 exclusion, was taken from this bird, and was in his possession for 

 Borne years, but he cannot now remember what became of it. 



