412 BIRDS OP NORFOLK. [APPENDIX c] 



It has been met witli five times in Norfolk, and only one 

 of these examples can with any certainty be regarded as 

 an " escape ; " the others all occurred in localities and 

 under circumstances which are by many considered com- 

 patible with their being voluntary immigrants. The 

 examples referred to occurred — the first at Tatterford, 

 near Fakenham, on the 10th October, 1876; the second 

 near Hickling Broad, on the 7th September, 1877 (as 

 a bird of this species was missing from Northrepps Hall 

 about the same time, it is probable this may have been 

 an " escape ") ; the third was shot on some swampy 

 ground between Stalham and Barton Broads, on the 1st 

 November, 1877 ; the fourth, also at Barton Broad, on 

 the 23rd August, 1879 ; and the fifth was shot at Horn- 

 ing, on the 16th October, 1885. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 has given his reasons for regarding this species as an 

 occasional migrant to our shores, in an article which 

 appeared in the " Zoologist " for 1886, p. 71. 



