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a stick ; another sliot on Breydon, in October, and two 

 near Lynn in December. Others, however, were said 

 to have appeared on the coast in the neighbourhood 

 of Hunstanton ; and at Lakenheath, Suffolk, near the 

 boundaries of the two counties, one was j)icked up dead, 

 under the telegraph wires, on the 20th of September. 



In proof of my remark that, as a rule, this species is 

 by no means a numerous visitant, I may state that, as 

 shown by the entries in my note books of specimens 

 procured, in no one year have they exceeded four or five, 

 and that only in 1866 and in the autumn and winter of 

 1867. In all other cases their number has not exceeded 

 two. It is stated, however, by Messrs. Paget that in 

 1828 eight or nine specimens were killed near Yar- 

 mouth. By far the larger proportion of those of which 

 I have any record have been killed in close vicinity to 

 the coast, though commonly on some pond or stream 

 of fresh water; and the brackish waters at the back 

 of Salthouse beach are a favourite resort, from whence 

 I have had two or three examples. Occasionally, they 

 have been found far inland, as in 1854, when a pair 

 were shot at Hellesdon Mills, near Norwich; and the 

 one killed at Swardestone in 1866, is another mstance. 

 In the "Zoologist" for 1847 (p. 1640), Mr. C. B. 

 Hunter records the appearance of four grey phalaropes, 

 in the winter of 1846, " on the pond belonging to the 

 farm at Foulmere on the Wretham estate. They were 

 swimming about, quite tame, with the ducks belonging 

 to the farm," and had frequented that spot for about 

 three weeks. Soon afterwards one was shot out of four 

 on a Mere close to Wretham Hall, which were no doubt 

 the same as had been previously observed. This bird 

 is also recorded by Mr. A. Newton in the " Zoologist " 

 (p. 1693.) 



Most of the specimens I have examined, killed in this 

 county, have been young birds of the year, but some of the 



