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possessor of three other specimens, all killed in the 
county of Norfolk; one of these is the first example 
of the species known to have been obtained in Britain, 
and probably in Europe. The example in the Lombe 
collection was killed at Strumpshaw early in the 
present century. 
In the centre of the room, also arranged in vacant 
spaces round the walls, are a number of separate cases 
containing birds, in many instances of great rarity, 
and almost all of local origin. 
A very interesting memento of the almost 
forgotten but once popular sport of cock-fighting will 
be found in one of these cases. It consists of two 
cocks, trimmed and spurred, the one triumphant 
over its fallen foe, which lies prone at its feet. This 
group is the work of John Hunt, formerly a bird 
preserver in Norwich, and the author of an illustrated 
work on Sritish Ornithology, dated about 1815, of 
considerable merit, but unfortunately never completed. 
Perhaps the most interesting of all these rari- 
ties, certainly the most imposing, is the unequalled 
group of Native Great Bustards, which Sccuplsi ie 
centre of the room. 
The birds in the wall cases in this room are 
arranged in accordance with the system adopted by a 
Committee of the British Ornithologists’ Union, and 
embodied in their published catalogue, generally 
known as the ‘Ibis List.” There are eight cases. 
Commencing with | 
Case l., 
we find the Thrushes take precedence, in which family 
are our well-known Song Thrush and ‘Blackbird, as 
well as a great diversity of other species, some of 
which the unlearned would hardly expect to find asso- 
ciated even under different sub-families. In the same 
