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eddying circles to its utmost bounds, so the little volume that 
bears his name has created waves of sympathetic feeling far beyond 
the limits of private friendship ; and, whether at home or abroad, 
the simple obituary notice has doubtless drawn from the lips of 
many a naturalist the best, if even involuntary, tribute to his 
fame, “ Richard Lubbock is dead ! ” 
IX. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1870. 
By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. 
Read 27 tli February 1877. 
Bustard. The chief ornithological event of the year, in this 
county, was undoubtedly the appearance, early iu January, in 
the Hockwold fens, of a male Bustard ; the first, I believe, known 
to have been seen within the bounds of their former haunts 
in Norfolk* — although migrants have occurred from time to time 
on the coast — since the extinction of our local race in the year 
1838 ;+ when the Bustard ceased to be a' “British Bird” in 
* A bustard was recorded by Mr. Howlett, of Newmarket, in the ‘ Field’ 
of August 16th, 1873, as recently seen on the Wangford and Lakenheath 
warrens ; and the description of the bird said to have been observed there, 
answered to that of a Bustard. 
+ As stated in my account of this species in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk ’ (vol. 
ii, p. 15) there is no authentic evidence of our Norfolk race of bustards having 
existed later than the year 1838, when a female was killed at Dersingham, 
in the month of January, and another at Lexham near Swaffham, in the 
following May. The male birds were known to have died off prior to 
that time, and a few liens only survived of the once numerous Swaffham 
“drove.” The female killed at Lexham and presumably the last of its kindred 
has been recently added to the fine series of Norfolk bustards in the Norwich 
Museum, the gift of the ltev. W. A. W. Keppel. 
