Vill PREFACE. 



re-published for general circulation. With the exception 

 of a few subscribers to the " Zoologist" at the time, scarcely 

 any of our local naturalists are aware of its existence. 

 Indeed, with the exception of Lubbock's "Fauna," the 

 same may be said of nearly all the rest, whilst both Mr. 

 Hunt's and the Messrs. Paget's works are out of print, and 

 extremely scarce. With this catalogue, comprising short 

 notes on each species, and including many rarities not 

 hitherto recorded, was also given a very' valuable intro- 

 ductory paper, in which the natural attractions of the 

 county for the feathered tribe, the local changes that have 

 of late years affected our residents, and the chief causes of 

 the predominance of migratory visitants to our coast, are 

 all briefly discussed in a manner which established the 

 reputation of its authors as sound naturalists. 



As may be imagined the interval of just twenty years, 

 since this last publication, has not passed without many 

 and great changes being efiected in the physical condition 

 of the county ; and much that was then accurately 

 descriptive of its ornithological status, is now but a tale 

 of the past. Residents have become migrants, and 

 migrants resident, though the latter in fewer instances, 

 and from very different causes ; whilst no less than eighteen 

 species, all rare and accidental visitants, have been added 

 on good authority. Of such occurrences since 1846, 

 records have been made, from time to time, in the pages 

 of the " Zoologist,"* and from these details, together with 

 the communications of local naturalists and a careful 

 analysis of my own note-books for the last sixteen years, 

 I have been enabled to bring down to the present time 

 the history of the " Birds of Norfolk." 



Having recently visited, during the summer months, 



* The chief contributors, from this county, to that storehouse 

 of ornithological facts, being Mr. J. H. Gm-ney, Mr. W. E. Fisher, 

 Messrs. A. and E. Newton, the Eev. H. T. Frere, and the author of 

 the present work. 



