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but there is scarcely a department in Natural History with which 
lie is not identified ; he is credited with having detected at Yarmouth 
three excessively rare birds, namely, the Red-breasted Goose, 
Harlequin Duck, and King Eider, but the evidence is not quite 
satisfactory in either case. He seems to have had an unfortunate 
habit of consigning his rarities to the spit, and the Red-breasted 
Goose as well as a Ferruginous Duck were thus disposed of ; we 
have, however, the satisfaction of knowing that the former proved 
very good eating ! I think we must allow Wigg’s reputation to rest 
chiefly upon bis botanical skill, in which capacity Dawson Turner 
speaks of him as very shrewd and acute, and a good finder. 
Of Dawson Turner himself it is needless for me to speak, his 
reputation is so well established as an accomplished scholar 
and antiquary, well versed in the science and literature of 
the day in which he lived, as to require no further mention ; 
associated with him in the study of the natural history of the 
district, were Sir William Hooker and Mr. .T. Penriee, and they 
kept a diary in common which contains many interesting notes 
on birds. 
About the same period lived the Rev. William Whitear, joint 
author with the Rev. Revett Sheppard of the ‘Catalogue of Norfolk 
and Suffolk Birds,’ published by the Linnean Society in 1825. 
He was appointed to the living of Starston in 1803, and although 
not a Yarmouth man, spent a great deal of time at Winterton and 
Horsey. He left a ‘Calendar,’ from which extracts will be found 
printed in our ‘Transactions’ (vol. iii. p. 231), in which are most 
interesting accounts of his visits to the marshes at Winterton, 
Horsey Mere, and Breydon, in the years 1816 to 1819. In the 
former year, accompanied by his friend Mr. Brown of Yarmouth, 
he shot Avocets between Winterton and Horsey on the 2nd July, 
and took the eggs of the Black Tern. In the two succeeding 
years he also mentions finding the nests of Sheld-ducks in the same 
locality, and Shovellers were in such abundance that a gamekeeper 
named “ Taylor had discovered 56 eggs that Spring,” and his friend 
Mr. Youell of Yarmouth, another keen ornithologist, hatched some 
of these under a hen, but found the young difficult to rear. This 
