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killed in different parts of tlie county, and many others 

 appeared simultaneously (between tlie lOth and 25tli) in 

 more northern counties, as well as in Scotland. (See 

 Zoologist, 1864, p. 8880). The very unusual occurrence 

 of a pair at Cringleford, near Norwich, in 1851, as late 

 as the 20th of April, was recorded by Mr. Gurney at the 

 time in the above named journal ; and in 1853 I saw a 

 single specimen, which was killed near North "Walsham 

 during the first week in May, 



Amongst the valuable ornithological contributions 

 to the Norwich museum by the late lamented John 

 Wolley, there is none more interesting in itself, or more 

 peculiarly associated with the name of that hberal donor, 

 than the nest, nestling, and egg of the waxwing, together 

 with a pair of old birds in their breeding plumage. To 

 the untiring researches of that talented naturahst is 

 due the discovery of the nidification of this hitherto 

 mysterious visitant to our shores, sought for in vain for 

 many years throughout the northern regions of America, 

 Europe, and Asia, until both nests, eggs, and young 

 were procured by Mr. Wolley, in Finnish Lapland, in 

 the summer of 1856. A full account of this, his 

 greatest oological discovery, from his own pen, was read 

 to the Zoological Society at their meeting on the 24th 

 March, 1857, and will be found in the " Proceedings" 

 for that year,"'^ (p. 55). At this meeting a pair of adult 

 waxwings killed from their nest, a young bird, two 

 nests, and several eggs were exhibited by Mr. Edward 

 Newton, and a complete series of these specimens is now 

 in our Norwich collection. It had long been supposed that 

 the waxwing, in its immature plumage, would be found 

 wanting in those wax-like tips to the wing feathers. 



* Tliis communication was also reprinted almost entirely in the 

 "Annals and Magazine of Natural History," 2nd ser., vol. xs.., 

 p. 308, and in tlie " Zoologist," p. 5754. 



