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APPENDIX D. 



SPECIES DISCARDED FROM THE NORFOLK LIST. 



Scops asio, American Mottled Owl (vol. i., p. 44). 

 Mr. Stevenson omitted this species from his hst in 

 White's " Directory of Norfolk," 1883 ; and Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., followed his example in 1884. There is 

 no fresh evidence on which to reinstate it, but it is 

 right to say that the late Mr. Gurney always maintained 

 his belief in it. 



Loxia bifasciata, European White-winged Cross- 

 bill (vol. i., p. 242). Professor Newton has shown 

 (Yarrell's " British Birds," 4th edition, ii., p. 213) that 

 the specimen of this bird, on which Mr. Stevenson relied 

 for its claim as a Norfolk species, was really killed at 

 Drinkstone, near Bury St. Edmund's, in Suffolk, and a 

 crossbill, purchased by Mr. J. H. Gurney on the 9th 

 October, 1872, as having been taken alive on the rigging 

 of a vessel which arrived at Yarmouth in October, 1870, 

 proved to be the American form L. leiicoptera. This 

 bird lived in Mr. Stevenson's aviary till December, 1874. 

 On the 1st September, 1889, an example oi L. bifasciata, 

 now in Mr. W. W. Spelman's collection, was killed at 

 Burgh Castle, which is on the Suffolk shore of Breydon 

 water, and another was seen at the same time in com- 

 pany with it which was not procured. 



Sturnella ludoviciana, American Meadow Star- 

 ling (vol. i., p. 245). Although this species undoub- 

 tedly occurred (probably as an "escape") at Thrandeston, 

 in Suffolk, the report of its having been seen at South 

 Walsham, is, I think, not sufficiently conclusive to entitle 

 it to a place in this work, 



