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October, and November, in nearly every species which 
comes to us from Scandinavia. 
Although we owe so much to our geographical position, 
the importance of our celebrated sheets of water, called 
‘“‘ Broads,” must not be underrated, for these, though gradu- 
ally becoming smaller, still afford a paradise for bearded 
tits, Garganey teal, great crested grebes, and black-headed 
gulls, and, until very recently, were the home of many 
ruffs, harriers, bitterns, Savi’s warblers, black terns, etc., 
which the advance of the plough has nearly extermi- 
nated. 
In the following Catalogue there are twelve species which 
are enclosed in brackets and indented. Four of them— 
the European coal titmouse, the Scandinavian rock pipit, 
Pallas’ grey shrike, and the Danish barn owl—are consi- 
dered by many ornithologists to be only continental races. 
One, the red grouse, has been introduced. The ortolan 
bunting, eagle owl,! and pelican, it is thought may have 
escaped from confinement; while the Eastern golden 
plover, Wilson’s petrel, harlequin duck, and hooded 
merganser may not have been really killed in Norfolk. 
Several other species, after a careful sifting of their 
claims, have been passed over, though one or two of them 
are alluded to in footnotes. 
I have adopted an arrangement which has found favour 
with many ornithologists, and, in particular, has been, in a 
recent catalogue, adapted to British Birds, by Mr. H. T. 
Wharton—the late Prof. Sundevall’s “ Methodi Naturalis 
1 Mr. Edward Fountaine, of Easton, who has bred fifty-three eagle- 
owls, tells me that none have ever escaped from his cages. Two 
escaped from North Repps, where many have also been bred, but 
were very soon accounted for. 
