150 By Stream and Sea. 



has thus devoted his energies to scientific pastime, has here 

 accumulated more than three thousand, many of them very 

 rare birds ; and as there are two hundred and ninety 

 distinct species represented, but few individuals remain to 

 complete the ornithology of the British Islands. 



How a sight like this sets a sportsman, whose opportu- 

 nities are not equal to his zeal, longing to scour the coasts 

 of East Anglia, to make fowling raids, upon the wild 

 islands of Western Scotland, to punt warily with heavy 

 duck-gun about the broads of Norfolk and Suffolk, to range 

 the health-giving downs of Sussex, to plod through the 

 desolate and damp fen country. By these toilsome delights 

 alone this magnificent display of birds has been gathered 

 together. Norfolk, it is no secret, is the ornithologist's 

 happiest hunting-ground. Where else would you be likely 

 to find this spoon-bill, Paget's pochard, Bewick's swan, ruff, 

 shore-lark, Temminck's stint, and, over and above even 

 these rara aves, this fine specimen of the stork? None 

 familiar with sport on those dreary broads will be ignorant 

 of what these birds mean to the fortunate fowler ; they 

 mean long nights, cramped and frozen, lying in wait amongst 

 the forests of reeds which whistle and moan dismally in 

 the winter wind, and many a return to quarters unsuccessful 

 and dispirited. 



Next to Norfolk, Scotland has furnished the most and the 

 best birds. There are goat-sucker, gold crest, shield duck, 

 pintail, grey crow, buzzard, greylag goose, shag, black 

 guillemot, greenshank, scaup, and many others from the 

 islands off the coast of Ross-shire ; others from the moors 

 and forests of Sutherland, Perthshire, and Haddington. 

 Rock and sea birds are brought down from the Bass Rock 

 and Fern Islands ; Sussex has furnished smaller but no less 

 interesting varieties, 



