180 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



marslies, in the summer of 1849, within shot of the 

 Salthouse bank. 



On the 7th of June, 1848, an adult female, now in 

 the possession of the Rev. H. T. Frere, of Burston, was 

 shot on Breydon, as noticed by Messrs. Gurney and 

 Msher in the "Zoologist" (p. 2291). In 1852 Mr. L. 

 H. Irby recorded in the same journal (p. 3476) the 

 occurrence of an adult male on Breydon, about the 15th 

 of March (now in Major Irby's possession) ; and in 

 February of the same year an immature specimen also, 

 killed near Yarmouth, was sent up to Norwich for 

 preservation. This bird had evidently received a pre- 

 vious wound from the effects of which it had been 

 gradually wasting, and was thus happily destroyed."^ 

 A second example in the Norwich Museum (No. 211), in 

 adult plumage, was procured at Brooke, near Norwich, 

 in August, 1853. 



On the 3rd of October, 1855, whilst travelling by 

 an early train on the Great Eastern Railway, I saw 

 one of these birds in a low meadow, at Lakenham, 

 near Norwich, not far from the line, and, as long as I 

 could observe it, perfectly undisturbed by the noise of 

 the passing carriages. It was standing apparently in 

 a little watercourse, as I could see only part of its legs, 

 with its head and neck thrown back, and its red beak 

 resting on its breast in the most perfect repose ; whilst 

 the marked contrast of the black wing feathers to the 

 pure white of the rest of the plumage was strikingly 

 visible in the bright morning sun. 



On the 14th of September, 1856, a very fine stork 

 was seen on the farm of Mr. Sewell, of North Pick- 

 enham, near Swaffham, from whence it flew into some 

 low grounds belonging to Mr. R. Hall Say. Mr. Say's 



* These are the two specimens recorded by mistake in Morris's 

 " British Birds" (vol. iv., p. 152), as killed in 1851. 



