248 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
Mr. Miller’s collection at Yarmouth. This may be 
either one of those killed at Hickling in 1822, or, which 
is quite as likely, Mrs. Baker’s bird of 1824. All but 
one of the above examples seem to have appeared during 
the summer months between May, June, and July. 
In the Dennis collection at Bury, I also found a bird 
of this species, described as shot at Orford, but date and 
sex unrecorded. 
LIMOSA MELANOURBRA, Leister. 
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 
The Black-tailed Godwit is another of those gral- 
latorial birds which, within the last half century only, 
have ceased from breeding in our marshes. It were 
needless here to repeat the “twice told tale” of its 
extinction, the same causes having effected the same 
end in this as in many other cases, but I have thought 
it desirable to ascertain as nearly as possible, from 
contemporary evidence, the date when this fine species 
ceased to nest in Norfolk. 
“Five species in particular,” wrote Mr. Lubbock 
in 1845, “used formerly to swarm in our marshes,— 
the godwit, the ruff, the lapwing, the redshank, and 
the black tern. * * * * Whilst the redshank, 
in the breeding season, flew dashing around the head 
of the intruder on his territories, and endeavoured 
like the lapwing to mislead the stranger from the 
nest, higher in the air, and flying im bolder circles 
uttering a louder note, was the black-tailed godwit, 
called provincially the “shrieker” from its piercing 
cries. This bird is now almost extinct in this part 
of Norfolk; it used to breed at Buckenham, Thyrne, 
