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Title: The birds of Norfolk, with remarks on their habits, migration, and local distribution :
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Stevenson, Henry, 1833-1888 Southwell, Thomas, 1831-1909
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London : J. Van Voorst
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for several years, but graduallybecame extinct, some being accidentally shot, mistakenfor other game (only a glimpse of them being caught asthey flew behind trees), or, straying away, were killed,as strange birds, on adjoining properties. Mr. TJpcherhas also communicated the following interesting notewith respect to the wood-grouse:—A cock and hencapercally bred in confinement, but unfortunately, fromsome cause or other, the hen and Httle ones died. Thecock was turned out in my woods, where he lived forabout six months, and then was found dead with afir-cone stuck in his throat. He had a collar with hisdirection round his throat, which probably was thecause of his choking. SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS, (PaUas). PALLASS SAND-GEOUSE. No ornithological event, whether in our own or inearlier times, of which we have any record, appears tohave excited such universal interest as the irruption ofthis Tartar species into Europe, during the summer of1863. The extraordinary numbers observed in various
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^-i*t* -ry PALLASS SAND-GROUSE. 377 localities, the strange beauty of their form and plumage,added to the extreme rarity of specimens up to that time,in either pubhc or private collections, rendered themobjects of peculiar attraction to naturalists; whilst thefrequent notices of their occurrence by the press, in allparts of the kingdom, made the public generally familiarwith their abnormal migration. But few, however, ofthose who, in 1863, took so warm an interest in theappearance of these birds on our eastern coast wereprobably aware that the Lynn museum contained a finemale specimen, killed in that neighbourhood in July,ISSO,^ one of the first if not actually the first exampleobtained in the United Kingdom. The occurrence ofthis extreme rarity was at once made known to thescientific world in a letter to the Ibis (1859, p. 472)by the Eev. F. L. Currie,t who was at that time residingin the neighbourhood of Lynn, and took a livelyinterest in its museum collections. From this com-munica

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