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Cromer, and a pair in the Norwich Museum to have 
been killed at Yarmouth.* 
Selby (1833) figures a young bird shot near Yar- 
mouth, which was presented to him by the late Mr. H. 
Girdlestone, of that town; and another Yarmouth speci- 
men, in the Saffron Walden Museum, was also obtained 
at Yarmouth in 1833. 
On the 2nd of August, 1848, a female, shot at 
Salthouse, is recorded by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher 
in the “ Zoologist” (p. 2292); and from Mr. Dowell’s 
notes I find that a second specimen was killed the 
same year at Salthouse, on the 6th of September. 
Mr. Upcher, of Sherringham, has an immature bird, 
shot at Salthouse some few years back. Here also 
must be noticed, although not seen in this county, the 
occurrence of a large flock of these birds on the other 
side of the “ Wash,” near Wisbech, in 1849, of which 
Mr. T. W. Foster, of the Wisbech Museum, gives the 
following interesting account in the “ Zoologist” (p. 
2623) :—‘ Hight specimens were caught in a plover net 
on Guyhirn Wash, on the 11th instant (October), all 
of which are now in my possession; two of the speci- 
mens were undergoing the change between the summer 
and winter dress ; the other six had assumed it. Upon 
dissection, five of them proved to be males and three 
females. A flock of twelve were seen, eleven alighted, 
but in taking them out of the net, three escaped. 
Pennant named this bird the Cambridge godwit, 
probably from its being commonly found in that 
* Neither this pair nor a specimen killed at Elveden, Suffolk, 
by General Newton, somewhere between the years 1838 and 1841, 
and recorded I believe, at the time, by the late Mr. Salmon, in 
Loudon’s magazine, are now in existence, having been unfortu- 
nately destroyed by moth; but an immature bird, in the Museum 
collection (No. 218a), is marked Norfolk, although the date is not 
given. 
