x PREFACE. 
Norfolk, naturally suggested itself as of chief interest, 
and I consider myself most fortunate in once more 
securing Mr. Wolf’s services, whose original drawing 
for the present frontispiece was made from sketches 
of living specimens in the Regent’s Park Zoological 
Gardens. The drawing on the stone and colour pattern 
were executed by Mr. J. Smit, and the plates have 
been coloured by hand by Mr. Willam Smith, with 
his usual care and skill. 
The tinted lithographs by Messrs. Hanhart, of Brey- 
don and Thetford warren are from sketches made on 
the spot by Mr. J. Reeve, of the Norwich Museum, and 
most accurately represent the main features of those 
highly interesting localities. 
Breydon “ muds,” as here depicted at low water, 
have a world-wide celebrity, from the number of rare 
birds which have from time to time been killed thereon 
by the Yarmouth gunners; and the wild aspect of the 
Thetford warren scene, with the old warren lodge in the 
extreme distance, also faithfully represents the strangely 
undulating barren waste, which there forms a portion of 
the “breck” district. The two birds in the foreground 
to the left of the group of Lapwings, which have 
unfortunately lost much of their identity in being 
reduced on the stone, represent the Stone Curlew, the 
sole representative, now-a-days, in that bleak locality, of 
the Great Bustard. 
HS. 
NorwIcu, 
September, 1870. 
