QADWALL. 161 



THE BIEDS OF NORFOLK; 



BEGUN BY THE LATE 



HENRY STEVENSON, F.L.S., 



AND AFTER HIS DEATH CONTINUED BY 



THOMAS SOUTHWELL. 



^AIl efj'urts to find the reinainiiKj portion of the article printed 

 in 1877, ichicJi hreaks off' at the end of the last }xtge, having failed, 

 though it is hnoicn that the article had been completed, I have done 

 v}y best from other sources to sujqtly the deficiency.!^ 



The letter from tlie Rev. John Fountaine, quoted by- 

 Mr. Stevenson on the preceding page, is dated May 8th, 

 1875, which fixes the year 1850 as the date of the suc- 

 cessful introduction of the gadwall at Narford. 



Since that time the number of these birds breeding 

 in Norfolk has greatly increased, as also the area over 

 which they are spread. Whether or not the large number 

 of gad walls which now nest yearly in the south-western 

 portion of the county are all descendants of Mr. Foun- 

 taine's birds, or, as seems probable, their numbers have 

 been increased by wild birds attracted by those which 



