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handling the pen at any time, he frequently contributed 

 short notes to the Field, and in a few instances to other 

 journals. Very remarkable was his experience with a Great 

 Bustard {vide the Field, April 3rd, 1876), a magnificent old 

 male, which for several weeks frequented a field of coleseed 

 on his west Norfolk estate, where the writer will not easily 

 forget crawling behind a hedge to see it, and eventually 

 getting within about two hundred yards ; even then the 

 Bustard did not resent the intrusion for some time, but at 

 last flew away. On hearing of its arrival Lord Lilford 

 promptly sent down a female from his aviaries at Oundle, 

 and when that died another to replace it ; but it was of 

 no avail, for the cock Bustard showed no inclination to 

 mate, and at the end of February migrated and was not 

 seen again. 



J. H. GURNEY. 



