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cal Society at Cambridge. A correspondent in the Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, vol. vi. p. 513, says that the late 

 Duke of Queensberry had three Bustards pinioned on his 

 lawn at Newmarket ; and J. Westall, Esq., had one for a 

 long time in his garden at Risby, in Suffolk. The authors 

 of the Catalogue of the Birds of Norfolk and Suffolk, pub- 

 lished in 1827 in the fifteenth volume of the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, say, " these noble birds still con- 

 tinue to breed in some of the open parts of both counties, 

 though they are become much scarcer than formerly. The 

 places most frequented by them are, Westacre in the 

 former county, and Icklingham in the latter. At both 

 places they are carefully preserved by the proprietors. 

 In the summer of 1819, nineteen were observed together 

 at Westacre. We have twice seen a male Bustard in 

 the neighbourhood of Burnham. It suffered itself to be 

 approached to about the distance of a hundred yards, 

 then walked deliberately a few paces, and took wing with- 

 out the least difficulty. In flying it moved its wings 

 slowly, more like a Heron than one of the Gallinaceous 

 tribe. Mr. Hady of Norwich has more than once suc- 

 ceeded in domesticating this species/' In a note at the 

 foot of page 197 in Mr. Bennett's edition of White's Sel- 

 borne, it is stated, " that two birds of this kind, male and 

 female, have been kept in the garden ground belonging to 

 the Norwich Infirmary, and have but lately been sold by 

 the owner of them. The male bird was very beautiful 

 and courageous, apparently afraid of nothing, seizing any 

 one that came near him by the coat ; yet on the appear- 

 ance of any small Hawk, high in the air, he would squat 

 close to the ground, expressing strong marks of fear. The 

 female was very shy." The Eev. Richard Lubbock sent 

 me word that a female Bustard bred near Thetford in 



