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of July ; anotlier before that time sliot at Caister,* and 

 one killed in Norfolk, May 6tli, 1818, now in the 

 possession of Mr. J. Hunt, of Norwich, "f Of more 

 recent date, there is a record in Mr. Lombe's notes, of 

 one killed near Holt, in 1836 ; Mr. Lubbock mentions 

 one killed at Wretham; in 1838, and an adult bird in the 

 Norwich Museum (No. 211a) was shot near Yarmouth, 

 in 1842. Of this latter specimen, I find the following 

 interesting description in the " Zoologist " for 1843, (p. 

 182), from the pen of Mr. W. R. Fisher (then residing 

 at Yarmouth) : — " As I was walking on the beach, on 

 the morning of the 10th of May last, I observed a bird 

 of this species coming over from seawards. When it 

 first came over the shore, it was flying so low that I 

 could plainly distinguish its long legs stretched out 

 behind, like those of the heron, the black bar across the 

 wings, formed by the quill feathers and wing coverts, 

 contrasting strongly with the pure white of the rest 

 of the plumage. I watched it for some minutes, as 

 after taking two or three turns over the houses, it 

 slowly soared to an immense height, and then went 

 steadily off in a south-westerly direction. It was shot 

 the next day about six miles from Yarmouth." At 

 Halvergate, as Mr. Fisher subsequently informed Mr. 

 Yarrell. In Mr. Dowell's notes I find two records of 

 storks observed at Salthouse, one purchased by Mr. J. 

 H. Gurney several years ago, but not now in his collec- 

 tion (though he still possesses a more recent specimen 

 killed on Breydon) ; and another seen in the Cley 



* These are probably the same birds thus noticed by Messrs. 

 Sheppard and Whitear ra 1824. "A few years since a pair of 

 white storks were seen at Gorleston, and one of them was killed. 

 Another pair was observed at Acle in the month of June, 1817; 

 and about the same time a female of this species was killed near 

 Burgh Castle ; and another in the month of November following." 



t Probably the one recorded in his List as killed at Cantley. 

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