GUNN ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF NORFOLK. S-ll 



instance of the occurrence of this species that has come within my notice, 

 the former example was taken in the neighbourhood ot Wymondham, on 

 the 7th of October, last year, this was also an immature male. 



Falco cyaneus. — On the 12th instant a female was shot in a turnip- 

 field at Rollesby, a village eight miles distant from Yarmouth. Its stomach 

 contained the remains of a Meadow Pipit {Anthus 2'>ratensis) and Greenfinch 

 (Fringilla chloris) : finding the gizzards of these two birds in a perfect con- 

 dition I opened them, the former contained various grass seeds, and nu- 

 merous minute insects ; in that of the latter I found a few grains of 

 wheat, and some small grit. 



Falco cineraceus. — A live specimen, an immature male, was pur- 

 chased a few days since from a person residing at Sutton, near Stalham : 

 it was obtained in that neighbourhood during the summer, when quite 

 young, and brought up by hand ; it is now very tame. The upper parts 

 of its plumage are umber brown, feathers edged with a rufous brown, 

 which assumes a broader margin on the upper wing coverts ; throat, breast, 

 belly, thighs, and the under surface of its wings of a reddish brown ; upper 

 surface of its tail feathers, brown, marked with bands of a greyish brown ; 

 the under surface of a greyish brown, with bands of a pale brown ; irides 

 light brown, inclining to grey ; cere, yellow ; beak, black ; legs and toes, 

 yellow ; claws, black. An adult female of this species was obtained in the 

 same locality during the latter part of September, 1862 ; three immature 

 birds were taken alive about the same time, two of these w^ere purchased 

 by the Zoological Society in the early part of October that year. 



Strix otus and S. brachyotus. — Several specimens of these two birds 

 have occurred within the past fortnight. The Strix Irachyotus is however 

 by no means so abundantly obtained as in former years, it makes its appear- 

 ance in the autumn, returning northwards in the early spring ; it formerly 

 used to breed in the Norfolk fens, and may still do so occasionally, but 

 very rarely, as a nest has not been obtained for several years past. 



Lanius excubitor. — A male was shot on the 2Gth instant at Rollesby, 

 near Yarmouth ; I opened its gizzard, it contained the remains of a small 

 bird, wasps, and an imago of Vanessa urticce. 



TuRDUS torquatus. — On the morning of the 3rd instant three indi- 

 viduals were observed feeding on a hawthorn hedge that divided two fields 

 in the parish of Eaton, near Norwich. During the course of the afternoon 

 one of their number, a female, was shot ; two males have since been ob- 

 tained, one on the 6th instant at Thorpe, near Haddiscor, and the other 

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