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or any other birds.* The truth is the sixteenth-century records 
of the Bustard are very few in number, which point to its 
having been confined to a limited number of localities. 
The Crane.—Another typical East Anglian species in 
days of yore, the Crane, was a bird of the fens, not of the 
plains like the Bustard and Norfolk Plover. We do not hear 
of it as a Norfolk bird before about 1476, and then incidentally 
from one of the Pastons, who acknowledges ‘“‘ a brawn and a 
crane’ from a friend at Reepham.{ It is not likely that it 
was rare in those days, but more will be said of its status in 
East Anglia as a breeder in another chapter. It comes five 
times into the Accounts printed in the ‘“ Archaeologia,” but 
Mr. le Strange has found twenty-three additional records in 
those which are unprinted. 
1519 (Jan. 2] To Thomas Bloye for a crane ij iiij@. 
{ , 30] To Thomas Bloye for a crane, ij spowes 
ab 
[Oct. 23] To Bloye for a crane & vi. plouers xx? 
[Nov. 21] A crane of gyste. 
1525 [ ,, 12] To Clifton for a crane xx". 
1527. [July 11] A crane and a bustard kylled wt. ye 
crosbowe. 
[Dec. 15] A crane kylled wt. ye crossbowe. 
1528 [Jan. 12] »:  Kyled with the crosbowe. 
[ 29 14] o> 9 99 ” 
1533 [Sept. 25] . ie, 
to 28] A goos & a crane kylled with the gon. 
[Dec. 14] A crane kylled wt ye gunne. 
1536 [Nov. 21] Three cranes from the fouler of 
Tichewell [on the coast], v’. & vit. 
1537. [Jan. 14] One crane, xvi?. 
[Dec. 23] _,, » & ii geese ii viii". 
1538 [Sept. 15] ,, 5X. 
[Oct. 13] Two cranes, ii*. ii%, 
* Mr. N. F, Ticehurst has supplied a still earlier record from the 
Chamberlain's Books of the City of Canterbury, where, under date 1480-81, 
there is found among other entries. “. . . . Item pro uno Bustardo 
xvid.” (9th Report Historical MSS. Commission, 1883, p. 136.) 
t See p. 173. 
} Historical Manuscripts Com., 12th Report, p. 11. 
§ See p. 164. 
