410 BIRDS or NOEFOLK. [APPENDIX c] 



APPENDIX C. 



The following five species, I think, cannot be unre- 

 servedly admitted to the " Birds of Norfolk." I have, 

 therefore, thought it best to refer to them in an ap- 

 pendix by themselves, stating, as fully as the evidence 

 enables me, the claims in each individual case. 



Calandrella brachydactyla, Short-toed Lark. 

 Mr, George Smith, of Yarmouth, records the occurrence 

 of an example of this species in the " Zoologist " for 

 1890, p. 77, stated by him to have been shot near South 

 Breydon Wall, Yarmouth, on the 7th November, 1889. 

 It proved upon dissection to be a male. There can be 

 no question as to the bird obtained by Mr. Smith being 

 an example of this species, which is doubtless very likely 

 to occur here in a state of nature, but it may be well to 

 note that about the end of October, 1889, short-toed 

 larks are known to have been imported into London 

 with skylarks, and that two are recorded as presented 

 to the Zoological Gardens on the 28th of the same 

 mouth by Commander Latham ; it is, therefore, not 

 altogether impossible that the bird in question may 

 have been an " escape." 



Pyrrhula enuncleator, Pine-Grosbeak (vol. ii., 

 p. 234). Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., "Zoologist," 1877, 

 p. 845, considers the title of this species to a place in 

 the Norfolk list as at least doubtful, but I follow Pro- 

 fessor Newton in the 4tli edition of Yarrell's " British 

 Birds," who, with evident reluctance, allowed the bird 

 to remain, simply rejecting the report with regard to its 

 having nested in this county. 



