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QuaiIL.—The quail may be defined as a spring and autumn 
visitant, sometimes breeding, but comparatively rare 
now. The last noticeable flight was in 1870. 
Heron. — Our principal heronries are at Didlington, where, 
as Mr. H. M. Upcher has kindly informed me, there 
are seventy nests ; Gunton, where there are thirty-eight ; 
and Earlham, where there are twenty-five.t In more 
than one instance I have known a single nest of this 
usually gregarious species, and in other cases, as at 
Clippesby and Wheatacre, two or three pairs have 
remained a year or two, and then gone away. 
PurRPLE HERon.—Of late years has occurred seven times : 
once in July, twice in September, twice in October, 
once in November, and once in December. 
Saguacco Hrron.—The rare squacco has occurred in a 
very few instances—four only—in the summer months. 
LITTLE BITTERN.—AS a very rare summer visitant, this 
species has occurred about fifteen times on our 
“broads” — Hickling and South Walsham _ being 
especially favoured. (Comp. “Birds of Norfolk,” i1., 
Pp. 154.) 
BITTERN.—The bittern still occasionally ‘‘booms” and 
breeds on our “broads,” and as a migrant is not un- 
common in winter. 
NicHT Hreron.—Has occurred about a dozen times. The 
last was shot at Ranworth, July 21st, 1880, and sub- 
sequently presented to my father by Mr. S. G. Buxton. 
SPOONBILL.—Mr. Stevenson enumerates no less than forty- 
eight spoonbills, and more have been obtained since. 
It nested until 1882, in great numbers, as near to us 
as Horsteer Meer, in Holland, which is very little over 
a hundred miles away.” 
1 The colony at Mautby is reduced from 100 nests to 12. 
2 Comp. ‘‘ The Ibis” (1877, p. 415, and 1880, p. 397). 
