42 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



The Rev. R. Gwilt^ of Icklingham, Suffolk, informs 

 me that he has two eggs, laid many years ago in that 

 once noted district, and that a third, from the same 

 locality, was presented some forty years since to Lady 

 Wilson, of Hampstead. 



A third egg in Mr. Alfred Newton's possession was 

 bought by him in 1856, at the sale of Mr. YarrelPs 

 collection. It had been taken many years before, as 

 Mr. Yarrell once told Mr. Newton, somewhere near 

 Bury St. Edmund's. 



The most beautiful representations of the bustard 

 are to be found in Mr. Wolf's " Zoological Sketches " 

 (1st Series, pi. 45) and Mr. Gould's " Birds of Great 

 Britain" (part 5.) In both cases the figures are drawn 

 from careful studies, by Mr. Wolf, of birds which have 

 been kept alive in the gardens of the Zoological Society, 

 and almost every posture assumed by the species is 

 admirably delineated by that greatest master of animal 

 portraiture. 



OTIS TETRAX, 



LITTLE BUSTARD. 



Unlike the great bustard, whose history is almost 

 inseparably connected with that of the county, this 

 species would seem to have passed unnoticed by Norfolk 

 ornithologists until within the last forty or fifty years, 

 and though Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in 1824, 

 recorded two specimens as having been killed in Suffolk 

 (one of them in November, 1804), they make no mention 

 of its occurrence on the Norfolk coast. As more 

 recent local authorities, also, content themselves with 

 stating that it " has appeared in several instances," I 

 am obliged to seek for the particulars of such specimens 

 from other and private sources. The earliest of which 



