[appendix B.] BIKDS op NORFOLK. 409 



Hunt, schoolmaster, Yarmouth," but Dr. Boulton has 

 " quite forgotten the name of the old man from whom 

 he purchased them." 



Whether these are the pair of pratincoles referred to 

 by Mr. Stevenson (vol ii., p. 64) as killed in May, 1827, 

 on Breydon wall, and which he, with the assistance of 

 Captain Longe, was unsuccessful in tracing, it is now 

 impossible to say. Hunt, in his list of Norfolk Birds, 

 so often before referred to, says these birds were killed 

 in the "autumn " of 1827, but the entry in the Hooker 

 MS. is very precise, and settles the date beyond question. 

 It states in an entry dated " May 21st, 1827," that they 

 were " shot on the marsh near Breydon, Yarmouth, 

 to-day, are now in possession of Mr. Harvey ; " the 

 Pagets say they were killed on " Breydon wall," 

 which may well be the " breakwater near Yarmouth," 

 and we have only to supply the forgotten name of 

 Harvey to Dr. Boulton's account of the purchase, and to 

 suppose the date " 1810 " (in support of which there is 

 no contemporary evidence) to have been a slip of the 

 memory, to identify these birds with the pair killed on 

 Breydon in 1827. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., has seen these birds, and is 

 of opinion that their appearance is indicative of their 

 having been set up from skins. Supposing, however, 

 that they are the pair referred to in the "Birds of 

 Norfolk," the rough treatment they were admitted to 

 have received (1. c, p. 65) would amply account for 

 this appearance. 



In the "Zoologist" for 1869 (p. 1492) Mr. Stevenson 

 records the occurrence of a pratincole at Feltwell, where 

 it was shot in the first week in June, 1868, and is now 

 in the Newcome collection at that place. 



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