66 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
This bird came into the possession of the late Mr. 
James Sparham, of Blakeney, who presented it to Mr. 
Henry Rogers, then residing at Thetford. Some few 
years later, on Mr. Rogers leaving England, this pratin- 
cole passed into the hands of the late Mrs. Flower, of 
Feltwell, and is now in Mr. Newcome’s collection at 
Feltwell Hall. 
CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS, Linnzxus. 
GOLDEN PLOVER. 
The Golden or “ Whistling” Plover, as it is locally 
termed, is a regular autumnal visitant, but varies as 
much in numbers, according to the season, as in the 
time of its arrival. Pretty generally distributed through- 
out the county, it is met with in flocks of more or less 
extent, throughout the winter months, except during 
periods of extremely severe weather,* when, like other 
kindred species, it passes southwards, for a time, to 
return again with the earliest change to a more genial 
temperature.t At such times, after the breaking up of 
* Mr. Cordeaux, in his “ Ornithological notes’ from North 
Lincolnshire (“ Zoologist.,” 1867, p. 690), refers to the partial 
migrations of this species during sharp weather. In the first 
week of January, 1867, he says, during a sharp frost, “ not one was 
left in those places where a few days previously they had congre- 
gated in thousands.” On the 28rd, however, a rapid thaw com- 
menced; and on the 24th, when the marshes were once more clear 
of snow, ‘considerable flocks of golden plover had returned to 
their old haunts.” 
+ Mr. Lubbock gives a remarkable instance of the ‘‘ weather 
wise” instinct of this species, so appropriately termed pluvialis on 
that account. The extraordinary restlessness of several flocks of 
plover and lapwings in the marshes, so impressed him on one 
