98 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
some rare British Birds,’’ in which he notices the recent 
occurrence of two immature specimens at Yarmouth, 
and describes the difference in their plumage as com- 
pared with examples, at the same age, of Charadrius 
hiaticula. Of our local authors, Hunt includes it for 
the first time in his list of “Norfolk Birds,” pub- 
lished in Stacy’s history of the county in 1829; and 
under the name of the “ Alexandrine plover,” states that 
‘a beautiful one in the Norwich museum was killed at 
Yarmouth.”* When once it had been pointed out 
as a rarity, however, and its distinctive features made 
known, the Breydon gunners seem to have had no 
difficulty in supplying specimens to collectors. In 
the notes kindly supplied me by Mr. Joseph Clarke, 
of Saffron Walden, I find one recorded as shot at 
Yarmouth, on the Ist of May, 1851 (also noticed in Sir 
W. Hooker’s MS.) ; and of two specimens in the Saffron 
Walden museum, from the same locality, one was pro- 
cured on the 1st of January, 1834, the other on the Ist 
of February, 1836. Mr. Clarke also states that about 
the same time in 1834 Mr. Hoy received one from 
Yarmouth, but Mr. Hoy’s collection, according to 
Dr. Bree (“ Field,” vol. xxx., p. 465), does not now 
contain a specimen of this bird. Mr. Eyton, in his 
“History of the Rarer British Birds,” published in 
1836, says (p. 100) that he possesses “ two specimens of 
this bird, obtained near Yarmouth; and Mr. Gould 
informs me that when he first began to collect British 
birds, over thirty years ago, he was in the habit of 
receiving weekly a basket of sandpipers and plovers 
from the same locality, supplied by Harvey, a dealer at 
Yarmouth, who at that time used to purchase specimens 
* In the British series of the Norwich museum are three 
examples of this plover, but none of them seem likely to have 
answered this description even when first mounted. 
