American Bittern Botaurus lentiginosus: an historic first for Essex
207d Wenden [9561 Stephen Salmon [W. Davis]
207e Burgh 1855 Bought at Stevenson's Sale
[The Thos Smith Cambs specimen is unrecorded.]
Tuck's 1859 Bittern skin is also referenced after 207c.
All Bittern specimens prior to 1883 are accounted for. Note 207e was a later addition (see below) in
1887.
4. 1887
A Bittern specimen was bought on 12.9.1887 from Henry Stevenson's sale: shot Burgh, Suffolk,
1855 and entered as 207c in the 1883 R.M. Christy Catalogue (sec above).
5. April 7 1892 Newspaper article by G.N. Maynard
American Bittern
Wenden 1826 [208a] [Jabez Gibson]
Common Bitterns
Guist Fen, Norfolk [207a] GS. Gibson - from Barlow sale
Norfolk [207c] Joseph Clarke
Wenden [207d] Stephen Salmon [W. Davis]
Burgh, Suffolk [207e] from Stevenson's sale
[The Thos Smith Cambs specimen is unrecorded again.]
Note the consistency between the preceding R.M. Christy 1883 Catalogue and these entries by GN.
Maynard. The Tuck Bittern skin is not recorded, but Maynard was referring to mounted specimens
in display cases in the Museum.
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