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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1902.17 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name great bustard Title Great Bustards Description Case containing four Great Bustards and one chick. Case paid for by Mr Fison. Two of the four birds were specimens already in the museum before the case was built in 1902, but were from Suffolk. The other two are a pair from a flock released by Lord Jureagh and Lord Walsingham hoping to get them to re-establish a population in the area. They were shot by a gamekeeper who was prosecuted under the Game laws and fined five pounds. Material wood, glass Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1902.17
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

great bustard
Title

Great Bustards
Description

Case containing four Great Bustards and one chick. Case paid for by Mr Fison. Two of the four birds were specimens already in the museum before the case was built in 1902, but were from Suffolk. The other two are a pair from a flock released by Lord Jureagh and Lord Walsingham hoping to get them to re-establish a population in the area. They were shot by a gamekeeper who was prosecuted under the Game laws and fined five pounds.
Material

wood, glass

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