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obtained also in tlie adjoining county are recorded by 

 both the above authors ; and the occurrence of a fine 

 adult male at Lound, near Lowestoft, in June 1851, is 

 noticed by Mr. J. H. Gurney in the " Zoologist" 

 (p. 3233). 



With this family must also be mentioned the Indian 

 MiNO bird or Minor Grakle (Gractila religiosa), an 

 example of which, said to have been shot at Hickling 

 in 1848, was subsequently presented to the Nor- 

 wich museum by Mr. W. E. Cater. ^ From the fact 

 of this species being frequently brought over to this 

 country as an amusing cage bird, our English orni- 

 thologists have been loath to include it in the " British 

 series" without further evidence of voluntary migration, 

 and its appearance near the coast in the present instance 

 may be easily accounted for on the sujDposition that it 

 had escaped from some passing vessel. The above, how- 

 ever, being probably the only specimen observed in a 

 wild state in England, and being included by Mr. G. R. 

 Gray in his " Catalogue of British Birds," (though classed 

 amongst the doubtful species,) the particulars of its 

 capture in this county should, I think, find a place 

 in the present work. Mr. Cater thus writes to the 

 "Zoologist" (p. 2391) respecting it in 1849:— "In the 

 latter end of March, 1848, I was informed by a game- 

 keeper and others, that two very curious birds had been 

 seen by them, at Waxham, near Yarmouth, resembling 

 the blackbird, but with a white bar on the wing. I con- 

 cluded a mistake had been made, and that the birds 

 were ring-ouzels ; but a week after the above mentioned 

 time unfolded the mystery, for a bird, to a distant 

 observer, answering the same description, was shot at 



* The specimen above referred to will be found in tlie ' British 

 Bird' room, but in a separate case, near the entrance from the 

 Fossil room. 



