g02 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
therefore, have commenced their southward passage thus 
early, in company with their parents, which supposition 
agrees with the statement of Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, 
that they arrive “about the end of July.” 
The specimen figured by Selby in his “ British Orni- 
thology,” commencing the change to winter plumage, is 
stated by that author to have been killed “on the 
Norfolk coast, in company with several others, which 
had nearly acquired the winter garb,” and was presented 
to him by the late Mr. H. Girdlestone, of Yarmouth. 
This is one of the few instances in which they have been 
observed in any quantity at one time, but in the autumn 
of 1858, when an unusual number of specimens were 
procured on different parts of our coast, four out of five, 
as Mr. Dowell informs me, were shot in Cley channel by 
Overton, the gunner, on the 7th of September, one of 
which was then in full summer plumage. 
The following are a few instances of the occurrence 
of this species in Norfolk that have come under my 
notice during the last few years :— 
1851. October 2nd. A pair killed at Yarmouth. 
18538. March 19th. One near Haddiscoe. September 
8th. One in full red plumage, and a young bird of the 
year, from Salthouse. October 1st. Three specimens 
from Yarmouth, besides the four before noticed as killed 
at Blakeney in September of that year. 
1854. October 4th. A pair killed on Breydon, in 
company with one or two little stints. These are pro- 
bably the same birds recorded by Mr. Southwell, in the 
“Naturalist,” for January, 1855. <A pair in Captain 
Longe’s collection killed at Yarmouth about this date. 
1861. October. One inland, near Swaffham. 
1863. May. A handsome male, in full summer 
plumage, killed on Breydon, now in Mr. J. H. Harting’s 
collection, together with another male, in a state of 
change, killed by himself on Breydon, on the last day of 
