180 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
marshes, in the summer of 1849, within shot of the 
Salthouse bank. 
On the 7th of June, 1848, an adult female, now in 
the possession of the Rev. H. T. Frere, of Burston, was 
shot on Breydon, as noticed by Messrs. Gurney and 
Fisher in the “ Zoologist” (p. 2291). In 1852 Mr. L. 
H. Irby recorded in the same journal (p. 3476) the 
occurrence of an adult male on Breydon, about the 15th 
of March (now in Major Irby’s possession); and in 
February of the same year an immature specimen also, 
killed near Yarmouth, was sent up to Norwich for 
preservation. This bird had evidently received a pre- 
vious wound from the effects of which it had been 
gradually wasting, and was thus happily destroyed.* 
A second example in the Norwich Museum (No. 211), in 
adult plumage, was procured at Brooke, near Norwich, 
in August, 1853. 
On the 3rd of October, 1855, whilst travelling by 
an early train on the Great Hastern Railway, I saw 
one of these birds in a low meadow, at Lakenham, 
near Norwich, not far from the line, and, as long as I 
could observe it, perfectly undisturbed by the noise of 
the passing carriages. It was standing apparently in 
a little watercourse, as I could see only part of its legs, 
with its head and neck thrown back, and its red beak 
resting on its breast in the most perfect repose ; whilst 
the marked contrast of the black wing feathers to the 
pure white of the rest of the plumage was strikingly 
visible in the bright morning sun. 
On the 14th of September, 1856, a very fine stork 
was seen on the farm of Mr. Sewell, of North Pick- 
enham, near Swaffham, from whence it flew into some 
low grounds belonging to Mr. R. Hall Say. Mr. Say’s 
* These are the two specimens recorded by mistake in Morris’s 
“ British Birds” (vol. iv., p. 152), as killed in 1851, 
