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except when alarmed, aud then they point them upwards like 
the same birds. 
March 10th, 1819. Saw at Yarmouth a male Shoveller hatched 
last Juno under a hen by Mr. Youell. It had not attained its 
full size, and was a short bird. The head was green, and so W’as 
the speculum on the wing ; there was also some faint blue appearing 
on the wing ; below the green of the head and neck was a white 
collar; manteau was brown, and so was the back and tail-coverts; 
scapulars princij)ally white; upper part of the breast mottled 
with white and brown, the former predominating; shoulders red 
chesnut ; belly the same ; legs pale orange. 
Mr. Youell tells mo that a wild Coot, which liad its leg broke, 
easily became domesticated. Also that he has had four young 
leal, about half-grown, Avhich he kept till they were of full size. 
Toung Thomas told mo that they occasionally got j'oung Teal at 
Yarmouth, but that he never but once knew of young Pochards 
killed there. 
I saw a Stork at Mr. Harvey’s of Yarmouth, killed at the same 
timo as Jlr. Hunt’s. The same person had a Cinereous Shrike, 
killed February, 1819. 
A common Snipe, killed at Ado in the autumn of 1818, by 
G. C. Oxenden, Fsq., Aveighed five and three quarter ounces. — 
Corbett. 
^Ir. Hardy of HorAvich says that he rears Pheasants in the 
folloAving AA’ay; — they arc hatched by silky foAvls, Avhich are the 
most careful mothers. I hey are at first fed Avith a mixture of egg 
boiled hard and grated, bread, hemp and canary seed bruised ; and 
at the same time Avith gentles, procured by putting Bream or 
Horseflesh on a coarse sieve in the sun, Avhich is soon fly-blown, 
and the maggots fall through the sieve upon some coarse sand or 
gravel, Avhich in a day or tAvo are cleansed and fit to be given 
to the Pheasants. These gentles ansAver all the purpose of ants’ 
eggs. "W hen the Pheasants are larger they are fed Avith Buck- 
Avheat and Y heat mixed ; they are also fond of acorns, which are 
bruised before they are gh-en to the Golden Pheasants. 
Mr. Hardy says that he has kept a tame Bustard for seven 
years.’* I'ho female Bustard Avhich he has noAv got is become A’ery 
* For Mr. Hardy’s tame Bustard see SteA'enson’s ‘Birds of Norfolk,’ 
vol. ii. pp. 26 , 27 . 
