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extinct at tlie time his ‘ Fauna ’ was published, is treated of at 
some length, indeed, his record of that noble species is the fullest 
that had been published to that date by any local authority, and 
contains certain facts derivable from no other source. The Stone- 
Curlew or Norfolk Plover, another bird of the heath and breck- 
lands, was also an object of special interest with him, and his long 
residence at Eccles — in close vicinity to one of its main strong- 
holds— afforded every opportunity for studying its peculiar habits. 
To do justice, however, to Lubbock as a Norfolk naturalist, or 
fairly estimate the debt which every British ornithologist owes to 
his writings, we must consult that part of his work devoted solely 
to “ water birds ” — the ducks and waders of our broads and rivers, 
and the more marine species of our shores and salt marshes. Here, 
unquestionably, his personal experience, his power of observation, 
and descriptive writing, won for him a foremost place as an 
authority in such matters. To him we owe, as an author, the first 
recognition of the “Broad district” of Norfolk, as a paradise for 
the gunner and angler, comparable with any portion of the Lincoln- 
shire and Cambridgeshire fens, even in their palmiest days; and 
yet, as he points out, whilst the latter are mentioned by all the 
older writers on natural history — not omitting Drayton in his 
Pohjolbion — “ Norfolk, though perhaps richer than any of these, is 
consigned to total oblivion.” Yet Norfolk has its revenge in being 
still the stronghold of aquatic species long since banished from the 
now cultivated fens, and with such a chronicler as Lubbock, whose 
observations date back to a very early period of the present century, 
may fairly hold its own. 
Reference has already been made to his admirable description of 
the working of a Decoy*, and of the fowl and other birds that 
frequent its quiet precincts, and amongst the most valuable of his 
bird-biographies, are those on the Great, Common, and Jack Snipe 
(snipe shooting being a sport in which he chiefly delighted), Buff, 
Golden Plover, Lapwing, Redshank, Heron, and Bittern ; — with 
the Godwit, Avocet, and Black Tern, amongst the species which 
had become extinct in our marshes within his recollection. There 
is also one other denizen of the broads, the Great Crested Grebe, 
* This subject is illustrated in the ‘Fauna’ by two clever etchings by 
the late Miss Brightwell, representing the mouth and “ purse net" of one of 
the “pipes” of Mr. Kerrison’s Decoy at Ran worth. 
