THE NOHFULK AND XOKWTCH MUSEUM. 
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view, is a ca.se containing a couple of Game Cocks, trimmed and 
spurred, one crowing over its defeated rival which lies dead at his 
feet ; these birds were probably stuffed by Hunt (as many of the 
other cases undoubtedly were, as they bear his label), and the con- 
queror might have been, if indeetl it was not, the original of the 
portrait of the Game Cock in his ‘Ilritish Ornithology.’ Unfortu- 
nately there is no catalogue of the collection, and there are no 
memoranda on the cases, and but for the information recorded by 
Mr. Stevenson in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ which he obtained from 
the family ore it was too late, scarcely anything would have lx;en 
known of the history of interesting bird.s it contains. In addition 
to the birds there is a ilarten Cat which !Mr. Gurney remembers to 
have seen in the collection years ago, and which he thinks was 
probably killed in Brooke Wood, where this species was known 
to e.vist at the commencement of the present century. 
Amongst the other more noteworthy additions to the British 
Birds, Lord Lilford has presented a uniipic Norfolk-killed specimen 
of the Boseate Tern {Sterna dnio/dl/ii), shot at Hunstanton on 
duly 12th, 1880; Mr. Edward Fountaine, two nestlings of the 
Snowy Owl, only fourteen hours old, hatched in his aviary at 
Easton, in duly, 1888; and Lieut-Colonel Butler, a nest of the 
Hawfinch built in the garden of Herringfleet Hall in a Cedar tree 
in 1888. 
With regard to the rarer birds of prey I cannot do better than, 
as on a previous occasion, quote from the interesting remarks made 
by the President at the annual meeting. He .said the Committee 
had been i-ather fortunate in 1888 in getting seven additional 
species, for the average of the last few years had not been more 
than four. The Hawk from Christmas Island {Uro^jiizia-s uafali-<) 
•was a great aC(|uisition. That island, which was quite uninhabited 
and barely known, was recently visited for surveying purposes by 
H.J^I.S. “Egeria,” on board of which as Naturalist was Mr. Joseph 
Jackson Lister, nephew of the celebrated surgeon. Mr. Lister 
discovered on the island this fresh species of Hawk, which came 
nearcst to the Hawk of the Fijian Islands, but was nevertheless 
larger and distinct The two specimens — one an adult female, and 
the other an immature female — Mr. Lister had been good enough 
to present to the ^luseum. They were also indebted to a very old 
friend, Mr. Samuel Bligh, for having obtained for them two 
