The Norfolk Broads 228 



song is constantly to })e heard in every direction ; and tlie 

 black-headed male bird, fiirting its white tail-feathers wliile 

 clinging to the dried and yellow reed-stems, is a very 

 common siglit in all tlie drier parts of the marsh and on 

 the reed-ronds. 



Many Sedge-warblers, Yellow AA^agtails, JNIeadow-pipits, 

 A\'inchats, and otlier connnon birds, all add by their 

 presence to the beauty and interest of tlie scene. 



The botanist, too, may find many rare plants peculiar 

 to the district, and tlie entomologist comes to capture 

 rare and beautiful insects procurable nowhere else. The 

 sight of that splendid butterfly the swallow-tail, flying 

 in hundreds from flower to flower, is alone worth the 

 journey to see, especially as, with the exception of one 

 small fen in Cambridgeshire, the sight can be enjoyed 

 nowhere else in England. 



Oyster-catcher {Hcciiiatopiis ostialcgiis). 



