296 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



Cambridge, by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., which was found 

 in the peat, at Feltwell Fen, some few years ago (cf. 

 '' Proc. Zool. Soc," 1871, p. 703.)^ 



STERNA CASPIA, Pallas. 



CASPIAN TERN. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., has at various times taken 

 considerable trouble to investigate the reported occur- 

 rences of this fine bird in England, and from his latest 

 communication to the " Zoologist," 1887, p. 457, I copy 

 the following list of Norfolk specimens : — 



1. Yarmouth, or Breydon Broad, October 4th, 1825. "Mag. 



Nat. Hist.," iv., p. 117; Babington's " Birds of Suffolk," 

 p. 247. 



2. Yarmouth, 1830. "Zoologist," 1856, p. 5035. In the 



Norwich Museum. 



3. Cromer, 1836. On the faith of a letter to T. C. Heysham, 



dated November 21st, 1836. Lent by Kev. H. A. Mac- 

 pherson. 



4. Yarmouth, April 16th, 1839. Received in the flesh by my 



father [Mr. J. H. Gurney], 



5. Yarmouth. Female. June 2nd, 1649. Is or was in the 



possession of Captain Barber. 



6. Yarmouth. Male. June, 1850. In Bury Museum. 



7. Yarmouth. July 16th, 1850. Mr. Gurney was in- 



formed that others were seen at the same time. 



8. Yarmouth. Male. August 11th, 1851. Preserved at 

 North repps. 



9. Yarmouth. Male. May 2nd, 1862. Stevenson, "Zoolo- 



gist," 1862, p. 8093. 



* It may be mentioned that this was the second pelican's 

 humerus from the peat of the Bedford Level; the first, however, 

 was found in the Isle of Ely (" Proc. Zool. Soc," 1868, p. 2), and 

 the condition of the bone shows that it must have belonged to a 

 young bird, and one, therefore, almost certainly bred in the district. 

 It is worthy of note that in 1856 one of these lairds was found dead 

 on the shore at Castle Eden, in Durham, according to Canon 

 Tristram (" Zoologist," p. 5321), but so many foreign birds are 

 brought home by mei'chant vessels, that it would be rash to affirm 

 it had not died on shipboard and been thrown into the sea to be 

 cast ashore at Castle Eden, 



