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but by a knowledge of its haunts, and careful and 

 quiet watching, may perhaps be discovered. This 

 bird was also heard between Hoveton and Wroxham 

 broads." 



In the summer of 1843, a pair were shot at 

 South Walsham, one of which was presented by Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney to the Norwich museum, the other 

 to the late Mr. T. C. Heysham, of Carlisle, who was 

 anxious to possess a British specimen o^ this rare 

 warbler ; but on the sale of that gentleman's collection 

 in 1859, this bird was also procured for the museum by 

 Mr. Gurney, and, together with its companion from 

 South Walsham and the Limpenhoe specimen, forms a 

 highly interesting group. That the above-mentioned 

 specimens from South Walsham are by no means all that 

 have been heard or even killed in that district, I have 

 very recently ascertained from a communication kindly 

 made to this work by the Rev. H. T. Frere, of Burston, 

 who possesses an example from that locahty, and says, 

 " Others have been heard there since. Specimens were 

 sent from thence by the late Mr. W. H. Jary, years ago, 

 before the species was recognised by Savi, and no par- 

 ticular notice was taken of them beyond a formal acknow- 

 ledgment by the British Museum authorities. It is 

 known as the ' red craking reed- wren' by the marsh- 

 men." Presuming that Mr. Frere's bird was procured 

 about the same time as the museum pair, the next 

 occurrence of this species, after an interval of thirteen 

 years, is the specimen now in my collection from 

 Surlingham, which was shot on the 7th of June, 1856, 

 by the same man who had been so successful in pro- 

 curing the grasshopper warblers. His account of the 

 actions of this warbler agrees very nearly with the re- 

 marks of Mr. Brown, but as everything relating to a 

 species so little known is worthy of record, I give it as 

 taken down at the time in my note book. Being 



