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GANNET, Or SOLAN GoosE.—Often to be seen passing along 
our coast, and after protracted storms I have found 
them washed ashore at Cromer, having perished for 
want of food. 
[PeLtican.—Pelecanus onocrotalus or P. crispus.—Sir 
Thomas Browne! makes two allusions to a pelican 
shot on Horsey Fen, May 22nd, 1663,? but he adds 
that about the same time one escaped from St. 
James’ ;? but it may not have been the same. | 
CoRMORANT.—The cormorant is not at all a common bird, 
but is sometimes to be seen on the coast, and is not 
infrequently obtained inland. I have one shot at 
Kimberley, and my father another, shot at Earlham. 
SHAG, or CRESTED CORMORANT.—The shag, as might be 
expected, is very rare. Mr. T. W. Cremer has ob- 
tained two near Cromer, one immature, the other a 
fine adult. 
FORKED-TAILED PETREL.—From a valuable list of occur- 
rences communicated by Mr. Stevenson to Dresser’s 
“Birds of Europe,” it appears that the fork-tailed 
petrel has occurred in Norfolk about twenty times, and 
that the year 1867 produced seven specimens, one of 
which was in July. 
[Witson’s PETREL.—My father has a Wilson’s petrel, 
said to have been killed in Norfolk. Purchased 
i}. c. vol.'1., sp. -397/5 vol. iv.3 p. 3ro: 
2 In 1856 Canon Tristram found one on the shore at Castle Eden, in 
Durham. It hasalso occurred at Lille, in the Pas-de-Calais (Flanders). 
I found it abundant in Egypt, and it is common in Greece. It was a 
native of Norfolk in the days of the Urus and the Irish Elk. I 
obtained a humerus at Feltwell some years ago semi-fossilized. 
3 We have two accounts of the Zoological Gardens in St. James’s 
Park, one by Dr. Edward Browne, in which, under date of Feb. 25th, 
1663, he makes no mention of Pelicans ; and another by John Evelyn, 
who visited them on Feb. 9th, 1665, and saw one Pelican (Bray’s 
Memoirs of Evelyn, i., p. 373), probably the identical specimen de- 
scribed in Willoughby’s Ornithology (1678). 
