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this property. Neither Hawks nor Owls are destroyed, and that in- 

 discriminate engine of torture and destruction, the "pole-trap," is 

 unknown. Would that we could say the same of all Norfolk and 

 Suffolk ! It may interest your contributor to learn that Koe-Deer have 

 been most successfully introduced into the Warren Woods ; they have 

 bred freely, and are well on the increase. — Heatley Noble. 



The following are extracts from a letter received by Mr. Heatley 

 Noble from the owner of Thetford Warren : — 



" A few Black Game were turned out in 1885 ; a much larger 

 number were imported in 1886-87, some of which were liberated ; 

 others kept in a pen, where they did well. A fine cock was in- 

 advertently shot by the tenant of Croxton Hall Farm (Mr. Cole, jun.). 

 Some of the Black Game turned out remained at Two Mile Bottom, 

 others crossed the river to the Warren in 1888 and subsequent years. 

 The following were accidentally shot : in 1890 one cock and two hens, 

 in 1894 one hen, in 1895 two more hens. About one hundred were 

 turned down one year later, but most of these (their wings being cut) 

 were killed by Foxes during a snowstorm immediately after arrival. 

 Almost every year from 1897 to 1900-1901 a number were imported 

 from Norway, thirty in the last season. No doubt a few were killed 

 on the neighbouring estates, although very few died from natural 

 causes. Broods hatched off regularly, but seemed to disappear in 

 some unaccountable manner. A clergyman, near Norwich, informed 

 me a brood of young appeared with the hen in his garden. The old 

 birds remained in some numbers until one year some heather-burning 

 was done. The smoke seemed to frighten them, and they were noticed 

 getting up higher and higher, and eventually disappearing. Those 

 turned out since have mostly gone. Where do they migrate to ? 

 Everything possible was done for the birds. Their surroundings 

 appeared to be eminently suitable — junipers, birch, fir, rushes, grasses 

 of many kinds, bracken, heather abound, and bog-myrtle was planted in 

 suitable places. The river Little Ouse runs through the estate. A 

 few Black Game still remain. 



"In 1888-89 many Sand-Grouse were noticed, and one was shot 

 by accident. In 1891 five Whoopers were unfortunately shot out of a 

 herd of seven. In the early sixties the Peewit was very common on 

 the Warren, and as many as 280 dozen eggs were sent to market every 

 year. They, however, decreased enormously about twenty-five years 

 ago, although no eggs were ever taken after May 1st. The numbers 

 fell to sixty dozen, twenty dozen, and the last year they were collected 

 the produce was only six dozen. Since that time none have been 



