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Pied Rook.—A pied rook was captured at Henderswick, in the parish of 
Talland, Cornwall, on the 25th of October last. It was brought to me, and 
I kept it ten days, when I sent it on to the Zoological Gardens, Regent's 
Park, where I suppose it may now be seen. The forehead is white; the 
head slightly sprinkled with white spots; chin and throat white, with a 
sprinkling of white on the breast; two of the primaries on each wing white ; 
two or more of the secondaries, as well as a few of the upper wing-coverts, 
white; and white toe-nails on the right foot.—Stephen Clogy ; Looe, Corn- 
wall, January 15, 1875. 
Little Bustard in Norfolk.—The occurrence of a specimen of the little 
bustard (Otis tetra) in the parish of Tilney All Saints, in West Norfolk, in 
December last, as recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ for February last (S. 8. 4840), 
is somewhat remarkable, inasmuch as it proves another instance of the 
mysterious attraction which certain localities seem to possess for certain of 
the rarer stragglers of the feathered race to our shores. In the very next 
parish to Tilney—viz. Terrington St. Clements—my late father-in-law, the 
vicar of that parish, the Rev. T. T. Upwood (who was an excellent field- 
ornithologist), shot at various times no less than three specimens of the 
little bustard, two of which are still in the collection which he left at his 
seat, Lovell’s Hall, in the parish of Terrington, and the third is in my own 
collection here. These occurrences, however (I must hasten to add) took 
place between thirty and forty years ago, when the neighbourhood of the 
Wash presented a much wilder aspect than it does now, and when 
ornithological prizes were continually met with, the very narration of 
which makes the collector’s mouth water in these degenerate days. Thus 
Mr. Upwood used to relate how on one occasion, when partridge shooting 
in the “ Marsh” (as the very highly-cultivated corn-lands bordering on the 
Wash are termed), he was startled by a flock of seven great bustards (Otis 
tarda), getting up close before him, the strangeness of which sight, the 
mighty whirr of their great wings, and the flurry consequent thereon, so 
completely overcame him that—though he was an excellent shot, and 
seldom missed his aim—both his barrels were fired without effect. On 
another occasion he obtained a specimen of the blackwinged stilt 
(Himantopus melanopterus), and at various times no less than three 
specimens of the avocet (Recurvirostra Avocetta), of which again two are 
at Lovell’s Hall, and one in my collection. Other specimens which we 
should now regard as treasures were but ordinary occurrences in those 
days, and many were the grebes of various species, the godwits, the divers, 
the rarer kinds of ducks and gulls, which fell before his gun and rewarded 
his exertions. Fine specimens of the merganser, goosander and smew 
(Mergus Serrator, M. Merganser and M. albellus) were frequently occurring ; 
but each of these I have obtained from the same locality within the last 
twenty years. Bitterns (Botawrus stellaris and A. minutus), the spoonbill 
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