Excerpt from The Birds of Norfolk, Vol. 2 of 3: With Remarks on Their Habits, Migration, and Local Distribution IN completing a second though not final volume of the Birds of Norfolk, I feel that some explanation is due not only as to the unavoidable delay in its publica tion but as to the motives which have induced me to extend the former plan of the work. I should state, then, that in the endeavour to render my account of the Great Bustard as complete as possible, with reference alike to its habits and habitat, when an indigenous species in Norfolk, and to the history of such specimens of either birds or eggs as are still preserved in public and private collections, I was led into so considerable an amount of correspondence that this paper had been but recently completed, when read, in a condensed form, before Section D, of the British Association, at their meeting in Norwich, in 1868. This species, therefore, which, according to the classification I have adopted, properly commenced the present volume, may be said to have stopped the way for a considerable period, and has thus been the chief cause of a delay which I certainly have less reason to regret, since it has enabled me to put on record facts, retained only in the memory of our oldest inhabitants, and which a very few years hence would have been procurable only in a traditionary, and, therefore, far less reliable form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.