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be the wild carrot — Dauciis Carota — but in reality it is the 

 Peucedaniiin palustre or Hog's Fennel. 



Where rivers and broads team with fish, it is natural to 

 expect the presence of the otter, and it is found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Horning, but from the large amount of cover 

 afforded by the reeds and the rank vegetation, it is not often 

 seen ; their nests are occasionally found in the dense reed 

 beds. The polecat is occasionally seen, and I was informed 

 that an animal which, judging from the description, would 

 appear to have been a marten, was noticed running along the 

 ground and up the stem of a fir tree, mobbed by the sparrows 

 of the neighbourhood. The Norfolk list of birds is notoriously 

 a rich one, emulating that of Cornwall. The marsh harrier 

 may be seen almost any day, but they are as a rule immature 

 birds. When slowly flying at a distance, it may readily be 

 passed by as a heron, as it often flaps along in a lazy manner. 

 One evening I was standing up, concealed by bushes, for 

 ducks, and had shot four garganey teal, all of which had fallen 

 into and were floating on a small broad. Before the keeper 

 could come up to me with the retriever, a marsh harrier 

 managed to take up one of the teal and to steal off out of 

 gunshot before I discovered it. The garganey annually breeds 

 in the reed beds, but I am told they are diminishing in 

 numbers ; on the other hand, the full snipes breeding in the 

 district increase. The inhabitants protest against the shooting 

 season commencing so late as the ist August, and say that 

 the duck and snipe bred in their marshes go away in July, and 

 are shot in other districts. 



The bearded tit or reed pheasant is very scarce in the district 

 round Horning. I was much pleased on one occasion in 

 watching a small family party of six flying from bulrush to 

 bulrush along the edge of Malthouse Broad. I also met with 

 the grey-headed wagtail, motacilla iieglccta, the nest of which 

 I found with five eggs, and captured the male bird for identifi- 

 cation. I exhibit two nests of what are supposed to be those 

 of the sedge warbler, but I would remark that while sedge 

 warblers were breeding round the edges of the dykes, these 

 nests were found near together on the ground in the open 

 marsh. They appear to be flatter than those usually built by 

 sedge warblers, and the eggs are much paler, and are decidedly 

 larger than the usual run of that species. 



As for the fish, the water teams with them. Bream run to 

 a large size, as do the roach, perch, pike, and tench, but these 

 large fish are not to be caught every day. The pope, or ruff, 

 is very common too. 



As regards the lepidoptera, my anticipations were not 



