388 BIRDS OP NORFOLK, [APPENDIX B.] 



vations. It had probably escaped notice, as lie suggested 

 may have been the case, but in autumn it certainly is at 

 times quite abundant on some parts of the coast. In 

 1880 Mr. F. D. Power suspected this species of having 

 bred at Blakeney. (Cf. " Trans, of Norfolk and Norv\^ich 

 Nat. Soc," iii., p. 346.) The Scandinavian form of this 

 bird, known as Anthus riipestris (Yarrell, edition 4, 

 i., p. 590), has more than once been detected in Norfolk. 



Otocorys alpestris, Shore Lark (vol. i., p. 171). 

 This species, which twenty years ago was regarded as one 

 of our Norfolk rarities, visits us almost every autumn or 

 winter with great regularity, showing considerable par- 

 tiality to certain spots, where it may constantly be found, 

 and, if not killed off, continues to frequent the same 

 places perhaps for several months. Since 1880 Colonel 

 Feilden has found a flock frequenting a particular locality 

 every winter that he has had an opportunity of visiting 

 the spot, and a very intelligent shore gunner there told 

 him that so long as he could remember there had always 

 been plenty of these birds there in winter, but he 

 formerly believed them to be snow buntings. They are 

 not restricted to one spot, but are found in parties 

 varying in number all round the coast. Mr. Gatke 

 informed Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., that this species is 

 now much commoner in Heligoland than formerly, and 

 he thinks it is spreading westward. 



Emberiza cirlus, Girl Bunting (vol. i, p. 198). Mr. 



Stevenson was uuable to record more than two occur- 

 rences of this species, namely, in November, 1849, and De- 

 cember, 1855. The latter specimen is in Lord Leicester's 

 collection, at Holkham ; but since that time its claim to 

 a place in the Norfolk list has been unquestionably 

 established. In the autumn of 1875, Mr. E. T. Booth 

 obtained two female examples of this bird at Hickling, 

 which were not preserved ; two others, now in Mr. E. 

 Connop's collection, were netted on Breydon marshes, 

 on the 29th of January, 1888. Mr. Alexander Napier 

 also shot one at Holkham, which was not preserved. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris, Hawfinch (vol. i., p. 

 214). This species, regarded in 1846 by Messrs. Gurney 

 and Fisher as " a rare bird in Norfolk," and, in their 



