BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 251 
and two specimens in my own possession, one in summer 
and the other in winter plumage, were also, I believe, 
killed in Norfolk before they had ceased to nest here. 
As before stated, the black-tailed godwit now holds 
a place in our List as an irregular migrant only, visiting 
us in small numbers both in spring and autumn. Prior 
to the drainage of the Salthouse marshes they were 
occasionally seen in that neighbourhood, but Mr. Dowell 
describes them as rare at Blakeney, and the few speci- 
mens obtained are mostly procured on Breydon. 
In the “ Zoologist ” for 1847 (p. 1785) is the follow- 
ing note by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher :—‘ On the 7th 
(May) a pair of black-tailed godwits (male and female) 
having partially assumed the summer plumage, occurred 
at Salthouse.” Another is also stated (“ Zoologist,” 
p- 1956) to have been killed at the same place, in 
September of that year. The following are all the 
examples of which I find any record in my own notes :— 
1851. April. A single bird, killed at Blakeney. 
1854. May 2nd. A fine bird in full summer plumage, 
shot at Hickling. 
1859. May. A female in full summer plumage, 
killed at Yarmouth. In Captain Longe’s collection. 
1860. September 7th. An immature bird, shot at 
Blakeney. 
1862. August. A pair of immature birds, killed 
on Breydon. 
1863. August 22nd. An immature bird, killed at 
Yarmouth. In the collection of the Rev. C. J. Lucas, 
of Burgh. 
1864, August 27th. Four fine immature birds, said 
to have been killed at Yarmouth, were exhibited for sale 
in the Norwich market, one of which is now in my own 
collection. 
1866. January 10th. An adult bird, shot at Yar- 
mouth during very sharp weather. 
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