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my neighbourhood, which was taken by greyhounds forty 

 years ago, within three miles of Norwich." Among the 

 extracts from the Household Book, A.D. 1519, et seq., for 

 which I am, as before mentioned, under the article Phea- 

 sant, at page 326, also indebted to the Rev. Richard 

 Lubbock, are the following : " July 25th, a reward to 

 Baxter for bringing two young Bustards ; " and " Item, a 

 Bustard and a Hernsewe kylled with ye crosbowe." I 

 have been favoured by Thomas Bond, Esq., of the Tem- 

 ple, with extracts from Dugdale's* Origines Juridiciales, 

 which, as exhibiting the prices of various kinds of game 

 provided for a feast given in the Inner Temple Hall on 

 the 16th of October, 1555, the third year of Philip and 

 Mary, is not without ornithological interest; namely, 

 Bustards 10s. each; Swans, 10s. ; Cranes, 10$.; Pheasants, 

 4s. ; Turkeys, 4s. ; Turkey chicks, 4s. ; Capons, 2s. 6d. ; 

 Pea chickens, 2s. ; Partridges, Is. 4d. ; Plovers, 6d. ; Cur- 

 lews, Is. Sd. ; Godwits, 2s. 6d. ; Knots, Is. ; Pigeons, 

 1 s. 6d. a dozen ; Larks, Sd. a dozen ; Woodcocks, 7s. 8d. 

 a dozen ; Snipes, 2s. a dozen. To return, however, to the 

 Bustard in the county of Norfolk : I find Mr. Salmon has 

 recorded that " in the spring of 1832, three females re- 

 sorted to Great Massingham Heath, in Norfolk, for incu- 

 bation. Their eggs consisted of two pairs and a single 

 one. These were taken away, under the impression that 

 as there was no male bird, they were good for nothing ; 

 but the male is said to live apart after the female is im- 

 pregnated." From Mr. William Borrer, jun., I learn 

 that a very fine female was brought to him, which was 

 killed on the 26th of January, 1838, whilst feeding in a 



* I am indebted to another very kind friend for an extract from Dug- 

 dale's Monasticon Anglicanum, in reference to an early notice of Pheasants, 

 by which it appears that the Abbot of Amesbury obtained a licence to kill 

 Hares and Pheasants in the first year of the reign of Henry the First, 

 which commenced on the 2nd of August, 1100. 



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