Lost British Birds. 
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largest and most disgusting I have ever seen. It is now quite 
impossible in the north of England for any gamekeeper to 
form such another museum to bear testimony to his zeal and 
ignorance, as the so-called vermin no longer exist.” Mr. 
Dresser (Birds of Europe) says: “ In Wales, Suffolk, 
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, and the 
counties from Yorkshire northward, it has become historical.” 
In 1889 Mr. Howard Saunders [Manual of British Birds) 
wrote : “ The Marsh Harrier is now all but banished from 
the number of our indigenous birds. . . At the present day 
a pair or two, probably colonists from Holland, almost 
annually attempt to rear their broods in the Broad district 
of Norfolk, but are rarely if ever allowed to succeed ; and I 
