24: The Official Guide to the. 
Case IV. 
contains some very showy birds. ‘The Shag and the 
Cormorant will be found in the Lombe collection, 
Case 23; the latter is another bird lost to this county 
as a breeding species, for which purpose it resorted 
to the trees at Fritton, certainly as late as the year 1825. 
The Gannet occupies a position at the top of the 
case, and is followed by fine examples of the Heron. 
The Lombe collection, also Case 17, contain some 
very beautiful birds of this family, including the lovely 
Egrets, whose beautiful side plumes only developed, 
be it remembered, when the bird is breeding, prove a 
fatal gift, and have led to the extermination of the 
species in many of its former nesting-places to meet 
the cruel and thoughtless demands of fashion. A 
very rare species, known as the Squacco Heron, a 
native of Southern Europe and Northern Africa, 
formerly in the Stevenson collection, and which was 
killed at Surlingham, occupies one of the small ~ 
cases. Lower in the wall case are the Bittern, once 
sO common in the fenny parts of Norfolk, and the 
White Stork. Of the rarer Black Stork, a Norfolk 
specimen, from the Stevenson collection, which was 
killed on Breydon in June, 1877, will be found in the 
lobby at the entrance of the room. Some fine adults 
of the Spoonbill, a species which, like the Herons, 
and in their society, formerly bred at Claxton and 
Reedham, on lofty trees, seemingly a strange nesting- 
place for these long- legged birds, brings us to the end 
of this order. 
We now come to the Anseres, and a ne series 
of the British Geese are conenned here, and in Cases 
29 and.30 of the Lombe collection. Especial atten- 
tion is called to the Pink-footed Goose (in a separate 
case), which, although not recognised in this country 
