290 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
with the broken pieces, and from that time neither 
parent nor young were again seen. In spite of the 
intrusions of various spectators, the poor bird sat very 
closely, and even allowed itself to be photographed on 
the nest by Mr. 8. G. Buxton, without evincing any 
particular alarm. According to the statement of Dr. 
Fitch, who watched her through a glass, and to whom I 
am indebted for the above particulars, “she rested her 
bill apparently on the ground, with her large and 
prominent eye very wide open,’ and in this case a 
small rill and several little pits of water were situated 
within about one hundred and fifty yards of the spot 
selected. 
In the second week of April, 1860, a nest with four 
egos was taken at Taverham, and on the 6th or May, 
1861, two young birds, partially feathered, were sent up 
to Norwich to be stuffed, which had been captured on 
Mr. Bedingfeld’s property at Ditchingham. 
Again in April, 1862, I was informed that one or 
more pairs were supposed to be breeding at Taverham, 
which I have no doubt was correct, as an old bird was 
flushed there on the 1st of June, but the coverts being 
kept quiet on account of the game, no search was made 
for the nests. A pair were also seen at Kimberley, by 
Mr. Lambert, about the 6th of April of that year. 
In 1864, Mr. Southwell received eges of this species 
taken somewhere in the neighbourhood of Fakenham ; 
and a single bird was flushed in Catton Park, near 
Norwich, as late as the second week in April. 
On the 4th of May, 1867, I was told by Mr. F. 
Norgate, of Sparham, that he knew of a woodcock’s 
nest, at Attlebridge, about eight miles from Norwich, 
on Mr. Micklethwait’s property, where others have, 
I understand, been seen in previous years; and a 
correspondent in “Science Gossip” for 1866 (p. 88), 
signing himself “EH. A., Norwich,” states that in the 
