228 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
nesting of this species* in Norfolk has hitherto been at 
all suspected. Mr. Lubbock, who describes this bird as 
very irregular in appearance and uncertain in numbers, 
states that “‘many years ago, when a large tract of marsh 
dykes were cleaned out, at Caistor, near Yarmouth, the 
wood, as well as the green species, were for a time quite 
abundant,” showing in this respect a similar partiality 
for the dark peaty soil of the drains. 
Of more recent occurrences the following are the 
only examples with which I am acquainted :— 
1847. April. One recorded by Messrs. Gurney and 
Fisher in the “ Zoologist”’ (p. 1769), as killed at Yar- 
mouth, about the end of April. 
1848. May. Three specimens recorded by the same 
authors (“ Zoologist,” p. 2185) as killed near Yarmouth 
about the 9th of May. 
1849. August 2nd. Two specimens, male and 
female, recorded by Mr. L. H. Irby in the “ Zoologist ” 
(p. 3035) as shot at Yarmouth. 
1852. On the 5th of May, during the great flood 
in Hockwold Fen, before mentioned, Mr. A. Newton 
saw a bird which he had every reason to think was 
of this species, and on the following day at the same 
place a pair. May 28th. A single bird was killed at 
Sutton; and three more at Yarmouth during the same 
week. 
1854. April 22. One near Yarmouth; and on the 
Ist of July a bird, which I examined in the flesh, was 
sent up to Norwich to be preserved, together with a 
green sandpiper, a redshank, and a grey plover, all shot 
* Mr. Hewitson (“ Eggs of British Birds,” 3rd ed., 2nd vol., p. 
382) states that “on the 3rd of June, 1853, Mr. Hancock, after a 
long and persevering watch succeeded in discovering the nest and 
eggs of this species for the first time in Britain, at Prestwick Carr, 
near Newcastle.” * * * “The nest was situated on a hillock, 
in a marshy part of the carr, amongst heather and long grass.” 
