4882 Tue ZooLocist—Aprit, 1876. 
looked for it. The bird continued to eat sop fora time, but afterwards 
took kindly to peas. His beak is now growing a third time, but after 
thirteen months it has not the length it possessed prior to the amputation. 
Have any of my correspondents known of a similar case of reproduction in 
a bird’s beak ?—Hdward Newman. 
Great Bustard at Feltwell.—A great bustard took up his abode in my 
fen on the 24th of January, 1876, in a piece of coleseed. He seemed to 
consider this field quite as private property, for I do not think he was ever 
absent for a whole day till the 24th of February. Lord Lilford most kindly 
sent me a female bustard, which I turned out on Thursday, February 10th, 
in the presence of Professor Newton, Messrs. Harting, Salvin. E. Newton, 
and F. Newcome. ‘The male flew away whilst I was trying to drive the 
very tame hen up the field towards him. He, however, returned before we 
left, in less than an hour, and, though not close together, we left them in 
the same field. They, however, very soon made it up, and Saturday and 
Sunday they spent side by side, the male bird strutting round the hen and 
traping his wings like a turkey cock. ‘The fearful weather on Sunday night 
and the next day, alas! proved too much for the tame bird, and on Tuesday 
she was found dead in a ditch. ‘This was most grievous, as they were 
getting on so capitally. On the 21st of February Lord Lilford sent another 
hen: it was a very stormy day, so I dared not turn her out after the fate of 
No. 1, but shut her up ina little hut of hurdles and straw which I had 
built for No. 1, but which she would not take advantage of. The next 
morning the male was not far from the hut, and the keeper went down to 
let the female out, but he flew away. In the afternoon he passed over 
the field, but did not alight, and went on to Stockwold; thence to Eriswell 
and Elvedon, the seat of His Highness Maharajah Duleep Singh, where he 
was seen in the park. This is the last place where I can hear any tidings 
of him. I hope he is now in a place of safety —H. M. Upcher; Feltwell, 
Brandon. 
Stone Curlew.—The note of Mr. Gurney, jun. (S. 8. 4801), corroborating 
that of Mr. Rope (S. 8. 3867), that this bird leaves the heaths about sun- 
set and goes out to feed, is also quite true as regards the Yorkshire birds— 
now, I am sorry to say, almost extinct. They were usually pretty quiet in 
the daytime unless disturbed, but as soon as it was dusk they left the sandy 
warrens and flew, screaming, about the cultivated fields.—F’. Boyes. 
The Common Waterhen Migratory.—There can, I think, be no doubt on 
this point. Mr. Boyes states (Zool. S. S. 4845) that it “arrives in great 
numbers iu the spring to breed” in Yorkshire. Here in West Sussex we 
always receive an accession of numbers in the autumn. I could now almost 
any day count twenty or thirty in and about the mill-ponds here (Ratham), 
but probably not more than two, or at most three, pairs will remain to breed. 
I frequently hear them, in spring and autumn, at night uttering the ery 
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