254 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



is met witli during the summer months, at which time 

 thej are more frequently observed in the southern 

 counties. 



1853, August 23. A nearly adult male, nearWymond- 

 ham, now in the collection of Mr. Newcome, of Felt- 

 well. This is no doubt the same bird, recorded by Mr. 

 Gurney in the " Zoologist" (p. 4053), as killed " near 

 Norwich," about the same date. 



1855, August 14. An adult male was killed at Heving- 

 ham, and came into the possession of Mr. Alfred 

 Master, of Norwich, whose brother, Mr. Geo. Master, 

 of Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, London, has another 

 Norfolk specimen, which, strangely enough, some three 

 or four years before, was shot in the same locality, and, 

 I believe, from the same tree, during the cherry season, 

 the man who killed it being engaged on his cherry- 

 tree"^ at the time. On the 23rd of the same month, a 

 male was also killed at Sherringham, which is, I believe, 

 in Mr. XJpcher's possession. 



1856, September. A female, near Yarmouth ; and on 

 October 7th, an adult male at Hunstanton. 



The admirable figure in Yarrell's " British Birds" was 

 taken from one shot at Brooke, near Norwich, in July, 

 1838, which was sent to London for that purpose 

 by the Rev. J. Holmes, of Brooke Hall, on whose estate 

 it was killed. Of earlier specimens, Messrs. Paget 

 mention two killed at Yarmouth in August, 1815, and 

 April, 1820 ; and Messrs. Shepherd and Whitear one near 

 Yarmouth in the summer of 1818. Several specimens 



* These birds appear to be particularly partial to this kind of 

 fruit, since Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear, in recording the 

 occurrence of four specimens in Suffolk, remark, — " One was shot 

 upon a cherry-tree at Chelmondiston, and being only winged, was 

 fed with raw meat, and kept alive three months ; another was also 

 feeding upon cherries at the time it was killed at Polstead, in the 

 summer of 1818." 



