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Mr. Stevenson was so remarkable. In placing this memento of 
their late father in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, which had 
for so many years been the object of his constant and unremitted 
care, his family may feel assured that they have made the disposal 
of his journals which would above all others have been most in 
accordance with his wishes. 
XI. 
NOTE ON THE GREAT BUSTARD IN SUFFOLK. 
By Rev. Julian G. Tuck. 
. Iicrul 24 th Februanj , 1891. 
On Saturday, the 7th of February, my attention was called to a 
letter in ‘The Standard’ of tho day, from Mr. llowlett, the 
well-known Newmarket fisherman and bird preserver, to the 
effect that a female Great Bustard ( Otis tarda) had been shot in 
Mildenhall Fen on the 5th of February. 
“ The fenman that shot it,” says Mr. llowlett, “ had not the 
slightest idea what it was, and had I not happened to have seen 
him as ho was carelessly carrying the bird along, and at once 
secured it, no doubt it would soon have been skinned or plucked 
and eaten, and thus lost sight of. The bird is now in my 
possession.” 
Unfortunately I saw the paper too late to be able to get over 
to Newmarket the same day, and on Sunday of course it was 
impracticable, but Monday morning saw me en route for New- 
market. I just missed seeing and handling the bird in the flesh ; 
for when bought by Mr. Hewlett it was in such a condition from 
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