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example of this species which was killed on the 22nd at Horsey 
Mere, near Yarmouth, the throat showed some indications of the 
black band of the summer plumage, and the back and wings had 
the sharply defined black and white bars of the adult summer 
plumage. 
Little Bustards ( Otis tetrax) in Norfolk, Essex, and Corn- 
wall. On the 2nd of December a specimen of this rare straggler, 
now in the possession of Captain Bagge, was shot out of a field of 
coleseed at Tilney St. Lawrence, near Lynn, and was sent to Nor- 
wich to be stuffed. It proved to lie a female, the eggs about the 
size of pins-heads, and the stomach contained only a small quantity of 
vegetable matter. Mr. Hearle Rodd, in the Field of January, 2nd, 
1875, records another example as shot in a turnip field near the 
Lizard, Cornwall, about the 21st of December (writing on the 28th 
ho says, “last week”), and in the same paper is a notice of two more 
killed at Walton-on-the-Naze, of which, through the kindness of a 
correspondent at Ipswich, I am able to supply the following parti- 
culars. They were shot from a field of turnips and cabbages, near 
Walton-on-the-Naze, by Mr. Eagle, of Walton Hall, who sent them 
on the 29th of December, in a perfectly fresh state, to a bird-stuffer 
at Ipswich, and probably, therefore, they were killed on the pre- 
vious day. Mr. Eagle appears to have shot one in the morning 
when looking for game, and finding after he reached home that the 
bird was a rarity, he went back to the same field where he flushed 
and killed the second. A third is said to have been seen since in 
the same neighbourhood. The bodies were eaten and are said to 
have been “ exceedingly good,” but I do not understand that the 
sex was determined by dissection. They were, of course, like the 
others in full winter plumage.* From the appearance of these five 
birds between the first and last week of December, it seems pro- 
bable that a small flock alighted some'where upon our southern 
coast and from thence became dispersed. 
Winter Migrants in the severe frost of December, 187-L 
With the first heavy fall of snow, about the 11th, I found 
the usual traysful of male greenfinches in our fish market, the 
* Since this latter date one was shot near Shanklin. in the Isle of Wight, 
on the 2nd, and another near Looe, Cornwall, on the Dth of January, lt<75 
as recorded in the “ Zoologist,” p. 4,339. 
