^O BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



familiar pets for nesting purposes; and occasionally, 

 tliougli rarely, buff coloured and pied varieties have 

 been met with. Mr. T. E. Gunn, of this city, in his 

 notes on varieties occurring in Norfolk, (Journal of 

 the West Eiding Naturalists' Society, 1864, No. 10) 

 mentions two examples obtained in this neighbourhood 

 ill the winter of 1859, "one of a blueish slate colour, 

 lighter on the breast and abdomen; the other white, 

 mottled with small patches of the usual colour." A 

 correspondent in the "Field" (Feb. 13th, 1864,) also 

 described one recently shot near Lynn, as having the 

 *^back a light stone colour, its breast slightly tmged 

 with orange, and its belly light lavender;" and a 

 specimen in my possession, procured near Norwich in 

 February, 1865, has the whole of the upper portions of 

 the plumage light buff colour, the wings pale buffy 

 white, and the under parts as usual. 



PHCENICURA SUECICA (Liimaeus). 



BLUE-THEOATED WAEBLEE. 



The only example of this most elegant species, known 

 to have occurred in Norfolk, is a male bird in Mr. Gur- 

 ney's collection, picked up dead on the beach at Yar- 

 mouth, on the 21st of September, 1841. The same 

 gentleman has also another male killed about the 15th 

 of May, 1856, near Lowestoft, in the adjoining county, 

 and it is particularly worthy of note, that both these 

 birds, as well as the first recorded British specimen now 

 in the museum at Newcastle-on-Tyne, belong to the 

 form with the red spot prevailing in Scandinavia, 

 and not to the white spotted form which yearly visits 

 Germany and Holland. Of these two the Lowestoft 

 specimen is the most perfect in plumage, both as to 



