410 MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 
Mrs. Lee and obtaining a sight of the bird ; and I think, perhaps, 
as a result of that interview Mrs. Lee most kindly consented, 
notwithstanding her wish to retain it, to allow us to acquire this 
line bird on terms which the liberality of some supporters of the 
Museum enabled me to offer. The history of this Bustard is set 
forth at length at p. 401 of the third volume of the ‘Birds of 
Norfolk,’ and I hope that its wanderings are now at an end. The 
female bird, which the late Rev. Robert Hamond sent to Sir 
Robert Clifton at the same time, is still in the possession of a lady 
in London, who was kind enough to allow me to see it, and the 
only impediment to its rejoining its mate is the rather large, but 
not excessive sum, required for its ransom. We have now in 
the Museum two fine males and four females of the indigenous 
Hock which frequented the borders of the counties of Norfolk and 
Suffolk, and it is the ambition of Mr. Reeve to have this beautiful 
group displayed in the new Museum in such a way as to be worthy 
of the birds themselves, and of the counties of whose avifauna 
this magnificent species formed the chief glory. 
We have also been able to obtain, by purchase, a very good 
Snowy Owl, killed in February, 1847, at St. Andrew’s, near Bungay 
(Suffolk), which possesses the additional interest of having formed 
part of the collection of the late Mr. J. Spalding, of Westleton. 
A specimen of Tringa acuminata which has long been in the 
Museum has been brought into prominence by the occurrence of an 
individual of that species on the Breydon mud flats in August last, 
and should the claim which I have endeavoured to set up for it as 
a Norfolk killed bird (p. 3G6) be accepted, our collection contains 
the first British killed specimen of this species, which is also the 
first recognised example which has been met with in the Western 
Palsearctic region. 
Several additions have been made to the collection of birds’ eggs, 
also in the departments of Ichthyology and Conchology ; and to 
Miss Barnard, the honorary botanical curator, the Museum is 
indebted for a collection of Marine Alg;e from Victoria, Australia, 
and 119 species of dried Ferns and their allies from New Zealand 
and North America. 
The books, portraits, and antiquities, which it does not come 
under our province to speak of in detail, have all received interesting 
and important additions. 
