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is stated by the Pagets to have bought a Harlequin Duck* in the 

 market, but recent naturalists do not think the occurrence 

 sufficiently well established to entitle the species to a place in 

 the list of Norfolk birds ; and the same applies to the King- 

 Eiderf said to have been obtained by the same person. This 

 species has been, however, identified from another part of the 

 coast. 



Mr. John Youell was " a great bird man " ; his collection 

 contained some choice specimens. He is mentioned by the 

 Messrs. Pagets as having afforded considerable assistance in the 

 compilation of their lists. 



The Rev. C. Steward, Rector of Caister, whose name will 

 remain associated with the first and for many years the only 

 British-killed example of S teller's Duck (Somateria stelleri), 

 presented to the Norwich Museum his collection of over a 

 hundred specimens, including this Duck, a Purple Heron, and a 

 Caspian Tern. 



Mr. C. A. Preston obtained one of the earliest recorded 

 Ferruginous Ducks (Fuligula nyroca), which was shot close by 

 Giber's mill on the South Breydon wall, and which he sub- 

 mitted, when identified, to Paget, after whom the hybrid between 

 this species and the Pochard has been designated — the Pagets' 

 Pochard. 



A Yarmouth grocer named Lucia J is mentioned as having 

 been a familiar figure on Yarmouth beach, " where, gun in hand, 

 he used to be a terror to the Gulls," of which he appears to have 

 had a fine representative collection of species in their various 

 stages of plumage. 



John Smith,§ Librarian at Yarmouth, also collected and kept 

 records, but " has left but faint traces of his favourite pursuit." 



Stephen Miller's collection contained many choice birds, 

 which were sold in 1853. There were seventy-four lots, and 

 amongst them were the Buffel-headed and Red-crested Ducks. || 

 They produced what we should now consider very low prices — 



* Vide Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk,' footnote in vol. iii. p. 219. 

 f Ibid. pp. 192, 384. 



| Vide Trans. Norf. and Nor. Nat. Soc. vol. vi. p. 82. 

 § Ibid p. 81. 



|| Catalogue of Birds in the Collection of Mr. Connop. 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. IV., April, li/00. n 



