OBSEfiVATIONS. 



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and Hudson records it from " fields near Godstone and Marsfield," in the 

 same county. See Eiig. Fl. id., 202. It has also hcen seen " on the 

 coast near Brighton." (Phyt. iv., 156. N.S.) In Devonshire **it came up 

 spontaneously in a field that had been ploughed to form a garden, in the 

 centre of the new square, at Plymouth." (Rev. J. S. Tozcr, in Xcw Bot. 

 Guide, p. 14.) And the same gentleman also finds it in fields and on cliffs 

 by the sea in the same locality. See Flowering Plants and Ferns of Devon- 

 shire, p. 6. In Surrey, Mr. W. W. Saunders records it from " waste 

 ground by a mill, near the Dorking railway station, where the seed was 

 doubtless swept out with the refuse from the mill." Flora of Surrey, p. 309. 

 And at Wands wortli steamboat pier it was " plentiful for several years. 

 {H.B.P., 699.) Here I observed several specimens as recently as 1862. 

 In Hertfordshire a single specimen was found " on a newly-repaired tow- 

 ing-path, near Ware Mill, in 1841 : the seeds had perhaps been brought 

 with flax to the oil mill." Fl. Hertfordiensis, p. 27. In Durham, Winch 

 records it from the ballast-hills of Tyne and Wear, and more especially 

 from those of Bishopwearmouth. In Ireland, it is only recorded from 

 *' Dingle, Kerry, in flax fields," (Bab. Man. ed. 2, p. 24) : and there is no 

 notice of its occurrence in Scotland. 



[To be continued] 



Notes on the Ornithology of 

 Norfolk. — Varieties. 



I beg to notice the occurrence of 

 the following varieties which are 

 (with the exception of the last men- 

 tioned) in the collection of a person 

 residiug in this city, who is unable 

 to give me information of the precise 

 dates and localities of their occur- 

 rence, he having had them in his 

 possession several years. 



Turdus musicus. — An adult bird, 

 the upper parts of its plumage of a 

 uniform dull yellowish brown, mar- 

 gins of the feathers a shade darker; 



throat white ; breast and sides very 

 pale yellow, margins of feathers of a 

 darker shade of the same colour; 

 abdomen white; under surface of the 

 wings and tail of a pale yellowish 

 brown, which assumes a darker hue 

 towards the tips of the quill feathers 

 in the former, and the ends of the 

 tail feathers. I did not ascertain 

 the sex. 



Fringilla cannabina. — An individual 

 of this species has the head, neck, and 

 throat white, intermixed with small 

 patches of pale brown and yellow ; 

 back and upper surface of its wings 

 and tail white ; the margins of the 



