410 
it will afford me great pleasure to send you one. Before, however, 
I do so, I am desirous of knowing, of what size you would wish for 
the drawing, & how far you would desire it to he finished in an 
elaborate or rather in a sketchy style. I ask the latter question? 
presuming you intend it for your work, of which I am sorry to say 
I never yet saw a single plate : perhaps, therefore, in your reply, 
you would have the kindness to inclose me some one, no matter 
great or small, that I may have the draw® made to correspond with 
it. I do not know whether you are aware that, just at the same 
time when this bird was shot near us, another specimen was taken 
at Copenhagen. * No third, I believe, has yet appeared in Europe. 
A French Naturalist t from whom I derived this information, offered 
my friend, who has our bird, as many as 100 French Birds in 
exchange for it. We had this very last week the good fortune to 
have a second specimen J of the Ardea comata taken near us. Of 
this also I hope I sh d be able to send you a drawing if you desire 
it. Indeed whatever this county supplies I would always send 
with pleasure. I sh d only be doing a duty. To see you here would 
be a singular gratification to, 
Sir, 
Your very obedient servant 
Dawson Turner 
Yarmouth 23 rd May 1831. 
— Selby £sq. 
# This is confirmed by Kjaerbolling, who says {Danmark' s Fugle, p. 384) 
that a Steller’s Duck was caught in a net by some fishermen of Gilleleie in 
Denmark, in the winter of 1829-30, and sent to the Royal Museum at 
Copenhagen. 
t Most likely Delamotte, w T ho is believed to have been about this time in 
Suffolk and Norfolk, and to have been the guest of Mr. Leathes at Herring- 
fleet, near Lowestoft. 
t According to Mr. Stevenson ( B . Nor f. ii. 152), this is now in Mr. Gurney’s 
collection. Selby, in his note {111. Dr. Orn. ii. p. 2G),has possibly misunderstood 
the writer's meaning, whose first specimen would most likely be that known 
to have been taken in December, 1820. 
