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the rage for collecting had not then set in ; but some of these 

 birds, sold thirty years after at Mr. Rising's sale, produced the 

 very high prices already mentioned. 



Amongst other names associated with those " halcyon days " 

 may be mentioned Frederick Frere, Henry Teasdel, John Daw- 

 son Turner, Joseph Tomlinson, J. G. Overend, and Robert 

 Rising of Horsey. Mr. Overend's very representative collection 

 was dispersed in June, 1876. There were ninety-six uncased 

 lots, numbering one hundred and eighty specimens, which 

 fetched ridiculously low prices. Mr. Rising's birds were sold 

 at Horsey, September, 1885. There were one hundred and forty- 

 two lots of well-authenticated birds, which realized about ^9340, 

 several of the best of them ultimately going to the Norwich 

 Museum and to the Connop collection. 



Among local collections at the present time stands promi- 

 nently that of Mr. E. M. Connop, of Rollesby Hall, which at the 

 time of cataloguing by Mr. T. Southwell a few months since 

 consisted of 434 cases, containing 336 species of birds; and 

 among them may be mentioned Overend's White Stork, Great 

 Spotted Cuckoo, Black Stork, Greater Shearwater, Yellow-legged 

 Gull, Little Bustard, and many others. 



Mr. Fielding Harmer has choice birds, comprising a fine 

 series of Breydon-killed Spoonbills, and several of the rarer 

 Waders in nuptial attire, all obtained by him prior to the advent 

 of the Bird Protection Acts. Mr. Bellin, Sen., has a locally killed 

 Gull-billed Tern, Caspian Tern, and other rare Terns. Mr. B. 

 Dye, a blind baker ornithologist, still collects, and is the proud 

 possessor of a fine female Spoonbill with a grand crest, the 

 Pectoral Sandpiper, White-winged Tern, Fork-tailed Petrel, and 

 a number of others ; several of them were preserved by himself 

 before his eyesight failed him. Nothing more delights him now 

 than being left to identify any bird placed in his hands by feeling 

 it. Mr. E. C. Saunders, who collects as well as preserves his 

 own specimens, has had, amcng others killed in this neighbour- 

 hood, Norfolk Plovers, Black-throated Diver, Montagu's Harrier, 

 Solitary Snipes, and others. Mr. G. Smith's name is associated 

 with the first recorded examples of the Tawny Pipit, the White 

 Wagtail, the Mediterranean Black-headed and Iceland Gulls 

 and the Greater Shearwater, mention of which, with other rare 



