414 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. [APPENDIX D.] 



Ardea garzetta, Little Egret (vol. ii., p. 150). 

 This bird, now in the Norwich Museum, proved to be the 

 American Ardea candicUssima, and has every appear- 

 ance of having been mounted from a skin. See J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., " Trans, of the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. 

 Soc," vol. iii., p. 565. 



Ardea russata, Buff-backed Heron (vol. ii., p. 

 161). This species was admitted into the Norfolk list 

 in 1870 by Mr. Stevenson on the faith of a specimen in 

 SafPron Walden Museum, said to have been killed at 

 Martham in 1827; this bird is not, however, entered as 

 British in the museum catalogue published in 1845. 

 Mr. Stevenson never examined it, and it was destroyed 

 in 1873 in consequence of an attack of moth. 



Scolopax sabinii, Sabine's Snipe (vol. ii., p. 343). 

 This being now generally regarded as a melanism of 

 S. gallinago, must be omitted as a species. The variety, 

 however, has been met with in this county once since 

 the publication of Mr. Stevenson's article, viz., at Hock- 

 wold, on August 5th, 1889, by Mr. H. E. S. Upcher. 



