206 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
locality ; but of late years it has become so exceed- 
ingly scarce, even in its once favourite haunts, that to 
my knowledge more than sixteen years have elapsed 
since any were shot here.” 
Of more recent instances of the occurrence of this 
species in Norfolk, I extract the following from my 
own notes, the chief portion of the birds having been 
obtained in spring late enough to have acquired their 
dark nuptial plumage :— 
1851. September 11th. A single bird was pro- 
cured at Clenchwarton, near Lynn, as recorded in the 
“ Naturalist ” for 1852 (p. 170) by Mr. T. Southwell. 
1854. August 3rd. A female was shot at Burgh, 
near Yarmouth. A pair in winter plumage in the 
Dennis collection at Bury, marked “ from Yarmouth,” 
but with no date attached, were, I have no doubt, 
obtained about this time. 
1859. May 7th. A pair shot near Yarmouth. 
1861. May 10th. One in full summer plumage was 
shot at Yarmouth. 
1862. May 2nd. A fine pair in full summer plumage 
were shot near Yarmouth, with many other rarities 
during the spring migration. Of these birds Mr. F. 
Harmer writes in the “ Field” (vol. xix., p. 494), “one 
was shot from a punt as it was feeding on the mud- 
flats, on the inland tidal water near that town; the 
other was shot in the marshes by the side of a dyke, 
about a mile and a-half from the place where the 
first bird was killed; they were each alone, and easily 
approached when shot.” Another correspondent in the 
same week’s paper speaks of four having been seen on 
Breydon at that time, of which two males and one 
female were shot. 
1863.* May. One obtained on Breydon. 
* I find no notes on this species for 1864 and 1865, but in the 
