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of 1826 ; tlie female had eggs within her in a forward 

 state/' as was the case, as Mr. Lubbock states in his 

 " Fauna," with one of those killed near Tarmouth. 

 One of Mr. Salmon's birds is still preserved in Mr. 

 Lombe's fine collection at Wymondham, together with 

 another specimen (marked male and female in the 

 catalogue), which it is possible may be the one recorded 

 in his MS. notes as killed in Northwold Fen. 



Another example appears to have been seen, but not 

 killed, at Tarmouth, in 1839, as shown bj the following 

 extract from a letter to Mr. H. Doubledaj, of Epping, 

 from the late Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle, (dated Sep- 

 tember 15th, 1839), for which I am indebted to Mr. J. 

 H. Gurney, jun. : — " From a letter which I received 

 a day or two ago, from a friend in Norfolk, I find that a 

 specimen of the black-winged longshank was lately seen 

 on Breydon, which, however, I understand, escaped." 



In Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection is a female shot 

 near Yarmouth, about the 7th of May, 1842, as recorded 

 by Mr. W. R. Fisher in the " Zoologist " (p. 182) ; 

 and in the "Annals of Natural History," (vol. ix., 

 p. 353), the same is stated by Mr. Gurney to have 

 been killed at Hickling, " apparently a bird of last year 

 and a female, containing ova of about the size of a 

 shot." This is the last that I know of as having been 

 actually killed in this county ; but a bird of this species 

 was seen at Tarmouth on the 19th of May, 1866, a 

 rather remarkable season for rare birds on their spring 

 migration. It was observed on the beach, as Mr. F. 

 Frere informs me, with other birds, whilst the artillery 

 were practising their big guns, and being thus disturbed 

 at the time, it was followed up by a gunner as far as 

 Caister, where he made a long shot at and missed it, 

 and it was not heard of again. 



Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, has a Norfolk-killed 

 specimen, which he purchased in 1853, at the sale of 



