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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON A NORFOLK BUSTARD. 
and obtained the offer of it. I had also written to the coachman, 
Eobert Bear, who replied as follows : — 
March 19th, 1897 — “ Mr. Glasse told me he shot it [the bird in 
question] on Swaffham Heath, and by the time he told me I should 
think it is about sixty years ago. I did not live with him at the 
time, but he told me while I did live with him.” 
Miss Salvin corroborates this, and adds that Mr. Glasse was 
living at Eaynham when he told Bear of the circumstance, and 
the latter was “ quite positive that Mr. Glasse shot the Bustard on 
Swaffham Heath,” also that “ He was a young man when he 
shot it.” Mr. W. B. Glasse was eighty-four years of age when he 
died in 1890 ; assuming therefore that he was twenty-five years of 
age at the time of the occurrence, this would fix the event at about 
the year 1830, a by no means improbable date. Mr. Glasse was 
an eminent Chancery Barrister, a Q.O., and for many years occupied 
Vere Lodge, Eaynham, near Fakenham, as a shooting box. He 
lived, after his retirement, at Chittle, near Blandford, for some 
twelve year’s, and died there in 1890. After her father’s death 
Miss Glasse took up her residence at Bournemouth, where she 
died as above stated. 
This superb old bird is even larger than the old male killed 
in the year 1818, at Beechamwell, in our Museum collection, 
and if the estimated date of its death be correct, it would probably 
be the last male of the Swaffham drove; and it is not unlikely that 
the selection of the males for destruction, they being the liner birds, 
was the cause of the rapid extinction of these birds here, none but 
females having been left for some years previous to 1838, when the 
Dersingham and Lexharn birds, believed to have been the last of 
their race were killed. These widowed females dropped eggs, of 
course infertile, in a purposeless way, which were found on the land. 
Note. — This interesting specimen is now in the fine collection of 
Mr. E. M. Connop, at Rollesby Hall. 
