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lamily, who were residents on the Holkham estate, but was 
undoubtedly brought to this neighbourhood by James Pegg’s Avife. 
The bird was used as a playtliing by Wiley’s children, both indoors 
and in the garden, for some time ; Avhen on one occasion it fortunately 
attracted the attention of the late Mr. Samuel Bone, Avho for many 
years was deer-keeiier at Holkham Park. As Mr. Bone had been 
brought up on Mr. Hamond’s estate of Westacre, when Bustards 
existed in that neighbourhood, he at once recognized the value of 
the specimen, and protested against the treatment it was receiving 
at the hands of Wiley’s children, and induced Wiley to have 
the bird cased.* 
Both James Pegg and his Avife, the donor of the Bustard to 
Mr. Wiley’s children, are dead ; but learning that one of their 
children Avas living Avith a relative in Burnham Market, I made 
enquiries, and elicited that Mrs. James Pegg’s maiden name Avas 
Marianne Coe, and that she Avas the daughter of a labouring man 
in the parish of Sedgeford, in the county of Norfolk. How this 
Bustard came into the possession of the late Marianne Coe 
(or Pegg) will in all probability not noAv be found out ; but as 
her relations Avere inhabitants of Sedgeford, near Heaebam, on the 
borders, if not actually Avithin the “ SAvaffham tract ” occupied by 
the “ Bustard drove ” in the first quarter of this century, it seems 
to me more reasonable to suppose that this specimen belonged to 
our native race, than that it Avas a migratory example. That 
the specimen is a Norfolk killed one appears to mm unquestionable, 
otherAvise it Avould be difficult to account for its having been 
in the possession of persons belonging to the labouring class, and 
natives of the county. The inartistic mounting of the specimen 
suggests the presumption that it Avas the Avork of the village 
birdstuffer. — H. W. Peilden, March 20th, 1888. 
Migrants at Loavestoft, October, 1887. On the 16th there 
Avas a large immigration of Crows here. I observed them first 
about ten o’clock, and parties continued to arrive all day in 
numbers from tAventy to tAvo hundred, at intervals not exceeding a 
quarter of an hour till dark. Many thousands therefore must have 
* I may add as a note, not without interest, that in 1880, Mr. Bone, then 
sixty-nine years old, told me he had as a youth when employed in the fields 
at Westacre found a Bustard’s nest with two eggs in it. 
