A CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
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FRom comparatively early days, Norfolk has stood pre- 
eminently forward for its richness in Natural History, and 
at the present time it fully keeps up its character by 
possessing an avifauna more remarkable, in many ways, 
than any other county. This it owes, in great measure, to 
its geographical position. The East Coast of England— 
and Norfolk in particular—witnesses, every autumn, the 
advent of a huge feathered host from Scandinavia. 
This vast array is heralded by arrivals, in September, of 
redstarts, wheatears, pied flycatchers, little stints, pigmy, 
curlews, common sandpipers, dunlins, etc., but when 
October sets in the greatest rush takes place. There is 
no more remarkable sight than the movement of birds 
' The following species were first obtained in Norfolk, that is, before 
they were obtained in any other county :— 
Black-bellied Dipper. Broad-billed Sandpiper. 
Savi’s Warbler. (?) Eastern Golden Plover, 
Wall Creeper. White-winged Tern. 
Shorelark. Caspian Tern. 
Roller. Capped Petrel. 
Bee-eater. Dusky Petrel. 
Red-footed Falcon. Red-crested Pockaagd.. 
Pallas’ Sandgrouse. Buffle-headed Duck. 
Pectoral Sandpiper. Steller’s Duck. 
