X PREFACE. 



Norfolk, naturally suggested itself as of chief interest, 

 and I consider myself most fortunate in once more 

 securing Mr. Wolf's services, whose original drawing 

 for the present frontispiece was made from sketches 

 of living specimens in the Regent's Park Zoological 

 Gardens. The drawing on the stone and colour pattern 

 were executed by Mr. J. Smit, and the plates have 

 been coloured by hand by Mr. William Smith, with 

 his usual care and skill. 



The tinted lithographs by Messrs. Hanhai't, of Brey- 

 don and Thetford warren are from sketches made on 

 the spot by Mr. J. Reeve, of the Norwich Museum, and 

 most accurately represent the main features of those 

 highly interesting localities. 



Breydon " muds," as here depicted at low water, 

 have a world-wide celebrity, from the number of rare 

 birds which have from time to time been killed thereon 

 by the Yarmouth gunners ; and the wild aspect of the 

 Thetford warren scene, with the old warren lodge in the 

 extreme distance, also faithfully represents the strangely 

 imdulating barren waste, which there forms a portion of 

 the "breck" district. The two birds in the foreground 

 to the left of the group of Lapwings, which have 

 unfortunately lost much of their identity in being 

 reduced on the stone, represent the Stone Curlew, the 

 sole representative, now-a-days, in that bleak locality, of 

 the Great Bustard. 



H. S. 



NOEWICH, 



September, 1870. 



