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of 1826; the female had eggs within her in a forward 
state,’ as was the case, as Mr. Lubbock states in his 
“ Fauna,’ with one of those killed near Yarmouth. 
One of Mr. Salmon’s birds is still preserved in Mr. 
Lombe’s fine collection at Wymondham, together with 
another specimen (marked male and female in the 
catalogue), which it is possible may be the one recorded 
in his MS. notes as killed in Northwold Fen. 
Another example appears to have been seen, but not 
killed, at Yarmouth, in 1839, as shown by the following 
extract from a letter to Mr. H. Doubleday, of Epping, 
from the late Mr. Heysham, of Carlisle, (dated Sep- 
tember 15th, 1839), for which I am indebted to Mr. J. 
H. Gurney, jun.:—“ From a letter which I received 
a day or two ago, from a friend in Norfolk, I find that a 
specimen of the black-winged longshank was lately seen 
on Breydon, which, however, I understand, escaped.” 
In Mr. J. H. Gurney’s collection is a female shot 
near Yarmouth, about the 7th of May, 1842, as recorded 
by Mr. W. R. Fisher in the “Zoologist” (p. 182); 
and in the “Annals of Natural History,” (vol. ix., 
p- 353), the same is stated by Mr. Gurney to have 
been killed at Hickling, “apparently a bird of last year 
and a female, containing ova of about the size of a 
shot.” This is the last that I know of as having been 
actually killed in this county; but a bird of this species 
was seen at Yarmouth on the 19th of May, 1866, a 
rather remarkable season for rare birds on their spring 
migration. It was observed on the beach, as Mr. F. 
Frere informs me, with other birds, whilst the artillery 
were practising their big guns, and being thus disturbed 
at the time, it was followed up by a gunner as far as 
Caister, where he made a long shot at and missed it, 
and it was not heard of again. 
Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, has a Norfolk-killed 
specimen, which he purchased in 1853, at the sale of 
