384 BIRDS OP NORFOLK. 



situated near the border of the former, and about forty- 

 miles from the sea. *^It was brought to me (says Mr. 

 Newton) by a stable lad, who found it as he was exer- 

 cising a horse in the morning. He thought it had been 

 drenched by the previous night's rain, and so rendered 

 incapable of flight. But on inquiry I found that a 

 strange bird had been shot at and hit, two daj-s before, 

 by a man in the employ of our clergyman, and this 

 was doubtless the cause of its being unable to get away 

 from the lad. From another source I learn that several 

 sand-grouse, or at least unknown birds, were seen, and 

 some of them killed about the same time on Wangford 

 warren, between Brandon and Lakenheath. The tenant 

 sent them at once to London, saying nothing about 

 them to any one. These last were probably some of 

 those that found their way to the shop-boards of Mr. 

 Bailey and the other London poulterers." This bird, 

 being only slightly injured, was sent by Mr. Newton to 

 the Zoological Gardens in London, to be placed with 

 others of its species, obtained some time previously from 

 China. 



June 6th. — One male shot on the beach at Yarmouth. 

 This bird, a fine old male, now in the possession of Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, was killed by a man named Nudd, who 

 was walking on the north beach at Yarmouth, and 

 observed nine birds together, which he mistook for 

 plover. 



June 8th. — A female on Breydon wall, near Yar- 

 mouth. " Two sergeants of the militia artillery (writes 

 Captain Longe) were shooting on Breydon, when they 

 marked down about nine grey plovers (Squatarola 

 cinerea), which alighted on the stone wall of the 

 embankment. It was nearly nine o'clock in the 

 evening, and Sergeant Crowther got on to the bank 

 and managed to get a shot into them ; he noticed 

 one bird larger than the rest, and, singularly enough. 



