438 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
a stick; another shot on Breydon, in October, and two 
near Lynn in December. Others, however, were said 
to have appeared on the coast in the neighbourhood 
of Hunstanton; and at Lakenheath, Suffolk, near the 
boundaries of the two counties, one was picked up dead, 
under the telegraph wires, on the 20th of September. 
In proof of my remark that, as a rule, this species is 
by no means a numerous visitant, I may state that, as 
shown by the entries in my note books of specimens 
procured, in no one year have they exceeded four or five, 
and that only in 1866 and in the autumn and winter of 
1867. In all other cases their number has not exceeded 
two. It is stated, however, by Messrs. Paget that in 
1828 eight or nine specimens were killed near Yar- 
mouth. By far the larger proportion of those of which 
I have any record have been killed in close vicinity to 
the coast, though commonly on some pond or stream 
of fresh water; and the brackish waters at the back 
of Salthouse beach are a favourite resort, from whence 
I have had two or three examples. Occasionally, they 
have been found far inland, as in 1854, when a pair 
were shot at Hellesdon Mills, near Norwich; and the 
one killed at Swardestone in 1866, is another instance. 
In the “ Zoologist” for 1847 (p. 1640), Mr. C. B. 
Hunter records the appearance of four grey phalaropes, 
in the winter of 1846, “on the pond belonging to the 
farm at Foulmere on the Wretham estate. They were 
swimming about, quite tame, with the ducks belonging 
to the farm,” and had frequented that spot for about 
three weeks. Soon afterwards one was shot out of four 
on a Mere close to Wretham Hall, which were no doubt 
the same as had been previously observed. This bird 
is also recorded by Mr. A. Newton in the “ Zoologist ” 
(p. 1693.) 
Most of the specimens I have examined, killed in this 
county, have been young birds of the year, but some of the 
