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History of the Charities of Thetford , and published Hunt's 
Shilling Guide to the Ancient Borough of Thetford , for the 
purpose of the British Association visit in 1868, but this 
contains nothing on the birds, being merely to advertise the 
larger work. 
1870. The Capital of the Ancient Kingdom of East Anglia, “ The Mighty 
City in the East,” being a complete and authentic history of the 
ancient borough town of Thetford. London (A. Gr. Dennant) : 
1870. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxvi + 1 l. + pp. 492 with front. 
Birds of Thetford at pp. 225-35. 
Hunt (John), ob. 1842 ? 
But little is known of the life of John Hunt ; much that 
has been published concerning him is pure conjecture, and 
even such an accurate authority as the late Professor Newton 
allowed many quite unproved facts to be recorded about 
this author. From his grandson, Mr. A. K. Grand of Norwich, 
we learn that John Hunt was possibly born at Wymondham 
in Norfolk, and that he emigrated to America with his wife 
and family in August 1834, where he settled at Huntington, 
Long Island . 1 The plates in the Ornithology were engraved 
by John Hunt himself on copper, some of the plates being 
coloured by him, and some by his son, S. V. Hunt, an artist. 
It is stated in the History of Norfolk , 1829 (cit. infra), 
p. Iviii, that “ John Hunt, engraver and preserver of birds, 
to whom we are indebted for the following list, is a native of 
Norwich, and residing in that city. He is the Editor of a 
work on British birds, with 200 coloured engravings, now in 
the course of publication.” His address is given at the end 
of the “ List of Birds ” as St. Stephen’s, Norwich. That he was 
in part a professional taxidermist is shown by the fact (as 
mentioned in Southwell’s Memoir) that some of the specimens 
collected by John Henry Gurney the elder were stuffed by 
Hunt. See also under “ Honey Buzzard ” in his “ List of 
Birds ” in the History of Norfolk, where Hunt says, “ In the 
1 In the copy of Hunt’s British Ornithology presented to Professor Nowtop 
H. Stevenson, is the note, “ Hunt died at Norwich, June 1842.” 
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