O/Z BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



alive, in the Rose Lane, in Norwich," the street in 

 which Hunt lived. The Messrs. Paget say that " a few 

 are generally shot every winter. In November, 1824, 

 between two and three hundred shot after severe gales." 

 In the Hooker MS., initialled by Dawson Turner, occurs 

 the following entry : — ^' Storm petrel. So abundant 

 was this bird at Yarmouth after two or three days of 

 strong north-easterly wind, October 27th, 1834, that 

 one man in a boat off the Jetty took twenty-five speci- 

 mens swimming on the sea, and brought seven of them 

 to Jacob Harvey alive. They appeared a remarkably 

 tame and gentle bird." 



Mr. Stevenson mentions in his notes six of these 

 birds in one case, in the Dennis collection, at Bury, all 

 killed on the 9th December, 1849, by flying against the 

 floating light off Yarmouth beach; and again, "Several 

 were killed at Yarmouth, in the autumn of 1855, during 

 very severe gales, and many were knocked down with 

 sticks in Lynn Harbour, where they flew, to use the 

 words of an eye-witness, ' as thick as sand-martins,' " a 

 circumstance of which the present writer was also an 

 eye-witness. At the same time they were found inland 

 as far as Newmarket and Cambridge. Again, early in 

 October, 1867, after several days' stormy weather, many 

 were found dead on the coast and inland at Beeston 

 Regis, Little Fransham, and Lexham (Gunn, " Zoolo- 

 gist," 1867, p. 992; Stevenson, 1. c, p. 1012). Between 

 the 18tli October and the 1st of November, 1869, many of 

 these birds visited the coast, and one was picked up dead 

 near Foundry Bridge, in this city (Gunn, " Zoologist," 

 1870, p. 1983) ; others at Hickling, Stalham, Walton, 

 Hempton Green, near Fakenham, and other places. 

 Others occurred during the terrific gale and snowstorm 

 which visited this county on the 10th of February, 1871. 

 In November, 1872, another visitation of these birds 

 took place, and many were off the coast, although the 

 only one recorded that year was obtained at Cromer on 

 15th of that month. Two of these birds, taken at Har- 

 ford Bridges, near Norwich, after a north-west gale on 

 the previous night, were brought to Mr. Cole on the 

 1st November, 1880. These are some of the principal 

 occurrences of the storm petrel in Norfolk ; many others 



