46 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
that could be identified. The eggs in the ovaries, about 
the size of pins’ heads, were easily distinguishable, 
being perfectly white. The weather, as in the previous 
instance, was intensely cold at the time, with snow on 
the ground. 
To the Rev. C. W. Bagot, of Castle Rising, I am 
indebted for the notice of a specimen in his posses- 
sion, which was killed in that neighbourhood early in 
the autumn of 1860. The sex of this bird, which was 
stuffed by Mr. Baker, of Downham, was not noted at the 
time, but, like most of the specimens obtained in this 
county, it was killed in a turnip-field, by a gamekeeper, 
who mistook it, as it rose, for a young guinea-fowl. On 
November 29th of the same year another, which proved 
to be a female, was also killed in a turnip-field, at 
Norton Subcorse, near Loddon,* and was preserved by 
Knight of Norwich, for Mr. J. Wigg of that place. In 
the latter instance, although appearing during some- 
what mild weather, this straggler preceded only by a 
week or two the intensely severe frosts of the two 
following months, during which time two others occurred 
in the adjoining counties of Suffolk and Essex. 
Last in the list to the present time, is a specimen 
killed at Thetford, for the knowledge of which and the 
following particulars respecting it, I am indebted to my 
friend Mr. John Flower, of Croydon :—“It was first 
seen in a field adjoining Mr. Bartlett’s land, about 
Christmas, 1861. It was shot at by some one from 
Thetford, and missed. It then went on to the warren, 
a bare tract of land of about three thousand acres, 
where it was caught in a rabbit-trap. Mr. Bartlett had 
it stuffed and gave it to his father-in-law, Mr. Fuller, of 
Beachamwell, at whose death, a year or two ago, it 
* Not Reedham, as erroneously stated by myself in the 
* Zoologist,” p. 7315. 
