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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON RECENT ADDITIONS TO 
XVI. 
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE NORFOLK AND 
NORWICH MUSEUM. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 
Read 7,6(11 March, 1889 . 
The chief feature in the history of the collection of local birds 
during the past year, has been the presentation by the executors of 
the late Miss Postle of a selection of thirteen cases of birds, from 
the collection of her late father, Mr. Jehoshaphat Postle of 
Colney. Perhaps the most interesting of these is a young male 
Bustard, which, although not one of the indigenous Norfolk race, 
was still killed in this county. Its history, as communicated by the 
late Rev. Edward Postle (through whom the collection passed, first 
into the hands of Mr. Henry Postle, of Little Witchingham, and 
finally into the possession of Miss Postle, of Thorpe, Norwich) to 
Mr. Stevenson, is thus recorded in the “ Birds of Norfolk ” (vol. ii. 
p. 30) : — “It was killed, I should say, in 1820, at Horsey-by-the- 
Sea, and was seen to come off the sea and to drop into a turnip 
field, where it remained till a farmer (a relative of a friend of my 
father’s) got his gun and shot it. It thus found its way into my 
father’s collection at Colney.” Another bird, which has the 
additional interest of having been killed by the Rev. R. Lubbock, 
is a Stilt Plover ; it was shot on the 9th of June, T822, and will 
be found recorded in Mr. Lubbock’s own words in “ Yarrell’s British 
Birds” (vol. iii. pp. 30G — 7, ed. 4). A Black-tailed Godwit in 
summer plumage, also an Avocet, are doubtless Norfolk killed, as 
both species bred here at the time Mr. Postle’s collection was made. 
A Golden Oriole in very fine plumage, mentioned by Hunt in his 
list of Norfolk Birds, was shot in April, 1824, by l\Ir. J. Postle at 
Hethersett. Another interesting case contains a pair of the now 
rare pure Phasianus colchicus — so much has the Pheasant of our 
day, been crossed with foreign species, especially with P. fonjuatut^, 
that it is only in collections made long ago that this bird is found 
at all free from cross. Not less interesting, from another point of 
