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adjoining, was the stonemason’s yard of Thomas Lloyd. 
John Hunt. in his British Ornithology, mentions that he had 
frequently seen the Little Woodpecker “ on some willow trees 
at the extremity of our garden.” * That he changed his 
address, while publishing his book, is shown by the cover of 
part xiii, where Hunt’s address is given as Red Lion Street, 
Norwich. ; 
A most interesting letter is also preserved in the copy of the 
British Ornithology formerly belonging to Henry Stevenson 
and now in Lord Lilford’s library. This letter is from Joseph 
Clarke,t to Stevenson, and reads as follows: “ I recollect the 
man Hunt perfectly well. I met him at Mr. Griffin’s,t a surgeon ; 
I understood he was a weaver ; he was below the middle height, 
thin, pale,‘consumptive looking.’”’ The statement that he was 
“a weaver ”’ is not, I think, worthy of any serious attention, 
for it will have been noticed that it was as a stationer that 
John Hunt became a freeman of Norwich and that he later 
ran a seminary for young ladies at Beccles. That he now 
regarded himself not only as an engraver but as a taxidermist 
is evidenced by the wrapper of Part XI of his work (preserved 
in the copy of the British Ornithology in the Newton Library), 
where he describes himself as an ‘* individual moving in an 
humble sphere of life ”’ and adds an advertisement: “‘ Arms, 
Crests, Ciphers, Fac-similes, Cards, Bill-Heads, &c., &c., 
Engraved and printed by J. Hunt, Rose Lane, near the 
Foundery Bridge, Norwich. Birds &c., Preserved, warranted 
equal to those done in London.’ Hunt has, indeed, been 
classed with Butcher, Hall and John Smith as a “ professional 
taxidermist,’ § and some of the specimens collected by John 
Henry Gurney the elder were stuffed by him. Mr. J. H. 
Gurney tells me that he still has an old case of his father’s 
containing an Egret and a Night-Heron which he believes 
were stuffed by John Hunt; the background of the case, 
presumably his handiwork, is most cleverly painted to 
represent a river scene. Several cases of birds, originally 
collected by Mr. Jehosaphat Postle of Colney, and set up 
by Hunt, are now in the Norwich Castle Museum. One of 
* British Ornithology : Vol. II, p. 125. 
+ Joseph Clarke, a Quaker, lived at Saffron Walden in Essex; he 
collected nearly all the birds in the Walden Museum. 
} Dr. Richard Griffin was secretary, in 1827, to the Norwich Museum, 
to which, in 1839, he presented a collection of birds’ skeletons prepared 
by himself. 
§ See Thomas Southwell’s ‘‘ Memoir of the late John Henry Gurney,” 
in Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, Vol. 
V, p. 158. 
