192 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
“shot at the mouth of the Norwich river, September 
13th, 1824,”* which came into the possession of Mr. 
J. J. Gurney, of Earlham;+ and had “four more in 
company with them.” These, in Sir W. Hooker’s MS., 
are said to have been male and female, the former 
weighing one pound and a-half, the latter one pound 
two ounces. The length of the male from the tip of the 
beak to the end of the toes was thirty inches, of the 
female twenty-six inches, and from tip to tip of wings, 
the former measured forty inches, and the bill was five 
inches long. 
In January, 1825, according to Mr. Lombe’s MS. 
notes, two more, male and female, were killed at 
Yarmouth, and may possibly be the pair which are 
still preserved in his fine collection at Wymondham. 
In Mr. Hunt’s List, published in 1829, a single 
specimen, killed near Cromer, in Mr. Norman’s collec- 
tion, is said to have been “sold to him under the name. 
of the “black curlew,” which fully corroborates Mr. 
Lubbock’s statement as to the name commonly applied 
to this species. 
Again, in October, 1833, according to Mr. Lombe, a 
single specimen was killed near Norwich, which is also 
mentioned in Mr. Joseph Clarke’s MS. notes, the latter, 
moreover, stating that the two which formed part of 
the late Mr. Miller’s Yarmouth collection were procured 
near that town in 1832.{ Strangely enough from that 
time, until the year 1850, I know of no instance of this 
species appearing on our eastern coast, but on the 27th 
of May of that year, as recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney in 
* No doubt, the pair recorded by Mr. Youell in the “ Linnean 
Transactions” (vol. xiv., p. 588), as killed at Yarmouth in 
October, 1824. 
+ Now in Mr. J. H. Gurney’s collection. 
t Icannot trace these birds which were sold with the rest of 
Mr. Miller’s collection in 1853. 
