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the Crested Pochard, Buffel-headed Duck, Grey Snipe, Little 
Bittern, Black Stork, and Pallas’s Sand Grouse. It also comprised 
a very complete series of the local Raptores. Fortunately many 
of the most valuable specimens of the collection passed into the 
hands of the trustees of the Norwich Museum, and will thus be 
preserved to the county. 
John Smith, librarian at Yarmouth, was, in his time, a famous 
collector, but he, again, has left but faint traces of his favourite 
pursuit. I find the following entry referring to him. In the 
‘Zoologist’ (184!), p. 2528) ho wrote to the effect that three 
specimens of the Little Bittern had been shot in the marshes near 
Yarmouth, during the spring of 1849, but no further particulars 
are given respecting them ; and in a note on this it is stated that, 
in the Bury Museum, was an adult female of this species, amongst 
Mr. Dennis’s birds, which, in the memorandum attached, was said 
to have been killed at Potter Ileigham, on the 1 8th of May, 1849. 
Stephen Miller (a contemporary and a friend of Smith) lived 
at Southtown, and was very active in his time, but has left little 
record, although I find it stated in our ‘ Transactions ’ that he had 
a specimen of the Snowy Owl, which, if not obtained in this 
district, was most probably British killed. An adult specimen 
of the very rare Tengmalm’s Owl was in his collection, and it is 
possible that the bird of this species recorded by Messrs. Gurney 
and Fisher to have been taken some years since at Bradwell may 
have been the bird above referred to. His collection was, after 
his decease, dispersed by auction on the 22nd September, 1853. 
Boulter and Youell. — As these families are connected, I join 
them in this notice, regretting that the present members of the 
family are unable to give any information about them. The former 
was a Quaker, and carried on the business in the Market Place, 
where lie sold “ Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, and 
Pontipool goods,” with stationery wares, haberdashery, gloves, 
perfumery, and patent medicines. He also dealt in “ natural 
curios, antiquities, coins, and medals.” During a long life he made 
a very considerable collection, which included Natural History 
specimens, and which he called “ Museum Boulterianum,” but 
which was, unfortunately, dispersed on his death in 1802. And 
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