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on the forehead and rose-tinted under parts," which had 

 recently been obtained " in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Yarmouth ; " and further information enables 

 me to state that the bird had been killed in a garden at 

 the north end of that town in the spring of 1869. A 

 second example was caught in a greenhouse in the same 

 locality in the last week of May, 1875. It lived in con- 

 finement a few days, and was then brought to Norwich 

 to be preserved ; upon dissection it proved to be a male. 

 The specimen is now in Mr. Gurney's collection at 

 Keswick. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., in his " Catalogue of Norfolk 

 Birds," contributed to Mason's "History of Norfolk," 

 remarks as follows with regard to the form of the grey 

 shrike known as Lanius major, Pallas : " Whether this 

 variety be ultimately considered a distinct species from 

 the great grey shrike or not, it is entitled to a place in 

 the Norfolk List as a not unfrequent visitor." 



With regard to the specific value of this form, see an 

 exhaustive paper by Mr. Robert Collett, in the " Ibis " 

 for 1886 (pp. 30-40). 



TURDUS VARIUS, Pallas. 

 WHITE'S THEUSH. 



An example of this beautiful thrush was killed on 

 the 10th October, 1871, by Mr. Borrett, in the parish 

 of Hickling. It was presented by him to the late Mr. 

 Sotherton N. Micklethwait, and preserved by Mr. Gunn, 

 who recorded the occurrence (" Zoologist," s. s., p. 2848). 

 This specimen, the seventh known to have been killed in 

 Britain, proved by dissection to be a male, and after 

 Mr. Micklethwait's death was acquired for the Norwich 

 Museum, where it now is. Mr. Borrett confirms the 

 statement of other fortunate observers of this rare bird, 

 that its appearance on the wing was so like that of a 

 woodcock as to lead them to mistake it for one, 

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