368 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
Gurney recorded a second example as killed on the 
Denes at Yarmouth, in the last week of September, 
1848; but in a subsequent note in the same journal 
(p. 2568), he adds, “I now much regret to say that I 
fear that I was imposed upon with respect to this 
specimen, and that it is in reality a foreign one.” 
Subsequent enquiry has confirmed this impression, but 
the bird in question will be found in the British series 
(No. 246) at the Norwich Museum. 
On the 30th of September, 1853, however, a speci- 
men, now in Mr. J. H. Gurney’s possession, was obtained 
near Yarmouth, and was thus recorded by him in the 
“Zoologist” (p. 4124):—“TI had the opportunity of 
examining this sandpiper in the flesh; it was a female, 
and apparently a bird of the year; it was not fat but in 
very fair condition. The stomach contained some small 
seeds and the remains of a few insects, but too mutilated 
to be recognisable with clearness.” Since that date, 
two more authentic specimens have been also procured 
in Norfolk. The first of these, in my own collection, 
was killed at Caister, near Yarmouth, on the 16th of 
September, 1865, and was brought to me in the flesh; 
unfortunately a shot had rendered the sex undistin- 
guishable by dissection. The second, and last to my 
knowledge observed on our coast, was netted by a man 
named Hornigold, in Terrington marsh, near Lynn, 
on the 9th of January, 1868. This bird, which was 
preserved for the Lynn Museum by Mr. Wilson, of 
that town, proved to be a female, and, judging from 
the plumage, a young bird of the previous year. 
Through the kindness of Dr. Lowe, I had the pleasure 
of examining this bird soon after it was mounted, and 
of comparing it with my own and Mr. Gurney’s speci- 
men. 
Unfortunately Mr. Hoy’s brief account of the bird 
which he purchased from Harvey, of Yarmouth, affords 
