NOTES FROM NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 11 



very fat, and the stomach contained the remains of a water- 

 beetle {Dytiscus marginalis) , which, judging from previous dis- 

 sections, seems a favourite prey. The second example, a female 

 (also of smaller dimensions than usual) was killed near Lynn on 

 the 26th. It weighed just 18 ounces, and measured 26^ inches 

 in total length, beak and tail included ; 45^ inches across the 

 fully extended wings, and 12^ in the wing from carpus. 



Solitary individuals of the handsome Greenbacked Porphyrio 

 have been met with in Norfolk on five different occasions, and 

 four out of the five were sent to me for preservation almost as 

 soon as killed. The last procured (Zool. 1885, p. 482) was shot 

 on October 16th, 1885, on the Eiver Bure, near Horning, as it 

 rose out of some reeds near one of the entrances to Hoveton 

 Broad. 



