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pletion of his seven years, when Mr. Gunn undertook the 
management of the business, which he still conducts. He 
has won Gold and Silver Medals for exhibits of his skill in 
taxidermy, and also the leading honours at the Great Inter- 
national Fisheries Exhibition, 1883. He has made a special 
study of ornithology, and has contributed a large number 
of articles and notes to the natural history and other journals, 
especially the Zoologist , Naturalist , Land and Water , and 
Field. 
1864- 65. Articles on Birds in Young England for 1864-65. London (W. 
Tweedie). [About 30 communications on mammals and birds, 
including the Irruption of Pallas’s Sand-Grouse in 1863.] 
1865- 67. Arrival of Summer Migrants near Norwich. ( Zoologist , 1865, 
p. 9732 ; 1867, pp. 873-4.) 
1866. Invasion of the Waxwing in 1866. ( Naturalist , 8 pp.) 
1867. Blue and White Varieties of British Birds’ Eggs. ( Zoologist , pp. 
754-5, 823.) 
1867-68. Ornithological Notes in The Naturalist's Circular for 1867-68. 
Principally relating to Norfolk. 
1876. Notes on the Occurrence of Bare Birds in Norfolk and Suffolk. 
( Zoologist , pp. 4785-91.) 
1885. Ornithological Invasions of East Anglia. 8vo. Norwich & 
London : 1885. (Originally appeared in The East Anglian 
Handbook, 1884.) 
1886. On Breeding of the Little Owl in confinement. (Zoologist, 11 pp.) 
1889. Eish Eating Birds of Norfolk. 8vo, 12 pp. (Originally appeared 
in The East Anglian Handbook, 1888.) 
1894-98. Becent Occurrence of the Great Bustard in Norfolk. (Trans. 
Norf. and Norw. Nat. Soc. v., 1894, pp. 656-9.) Idem (Op. cit. 
vi., 1898, pp. 385-6). 
1902. Discovery of the Aquatic Warbler in Norfolk. (Field.) 
1912. On presence of two ovaries in certain British birds, especially the 
Falconidce. (P.Z.S. pp. 63-79, pi. ii-v.) 
Gurney (John Henry), 1819-90 
John Henry Gurney was the only son of Joseph John 
Gurney, of Earlham Hall, Norfolk (celebrated for the various 
philanthropic undertakings to which he devoted the leisure 
of his life), and was born on July 4, 1819. At the age of 
ten years he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone on 
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