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obtained, one was given by Mr. Dix to Mr. Stevenson, who now has it, 

 the other is in Mr. J. PI. Gurney's possession (Lubbock's Fauna of 

 Norfolk, 60 and note); another specimen shot at Drinkstone is in 

 possession of Dr. Bree (C. R. Bree in lift., and in Z, 2419). Some 

 were reported, by Mr. C. B. Hunter (Z. 1498), to have been observed 

 on fir trees near Thetford in May 1846; this report probably arose 

 from the fact that two of the Drinkstone specimens were sent to 

 Thetford for preservation {Yarrell's Br. B., by Newton ii., 213, note). 

 One shot at Whepstead (Bilson MS.). 



American Meadow Starling, Sturnella magna (L.). 



5. One shot in March, 1860, close to the railroad at Thrandesl.on, 

 now in the Collection of the Rev, H. T. Frere, of Bnrston (P. L. Sclater 

 in Ibis 1861, 176; Lubbock's Fauna of Norfolk 61. Published from 

 this specimen in Gunn's Photographs of Birds of Norfolk, &c, No. 18). 



Inhabits North America ; only two other specimens have 

 been met with in Britain. Prof. Newton considers there is 

 every reason to suppose that all three had been imported 

 and had escaped. 



Nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes (L.). 



East Suffolk. 



1. One shot by a fisherman, off Yarmouth, in Oct., 1853; formerly in 

 possession of Mr. James Green (James Green in Z. 4096; J. H. 

 Gurney in Z. 4124). A male shot, Oct. 8, 1864, in a garden in Gorles- 

 ton, on the Suffolk side of the Yare (Lubbock's Fauna of Norfolk, 51, 

 Stevenson's B. of N. i., 285), in possession of the Rev. O.J. Lucas (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 9405). Mr. Lucas informs me that it was shot by Mr. 

 Stone in his garden ; he gave it to his boy, who sold it to a game dealer 

 in Yarmouth, from whom Mr. Lucas purchased it ; it is in good plumage 

 iinlitt.) ; it has been photographed (Gunn's Photographs of Norfolk 

 Birds, No. 8). Shot once at Somerleyton, about 1876 (Freeman v.v.). 



Red-Winged Starling, Aqelcms Winged Starling ? I have tried to get a 



phceniceus, Vieillot. sight at them since, but without success, 



6. Seen at Hadleigh, by several boys but a boy named Giimsey saw one sitting 

 in May 1882. Mr. F. Spalding writes to on a hurdle in a meadow close by my 

 me as follows, in a letter dated Hadleigh house, and described it as a Blackbird, 

 June 21, 1882 :—" On Wednesday, May with red on the wings, and another boy 

 17th, my boy Edmund of 13 years saw a named Jackson saw one by our old farm- 

 pair of what he called " Starlings with yard near the Hall. Perhaps this is 

 red on the wings close by the back," not worth your notice for your Rare Birds of 

 red bodies, but only on the wing coverts. Suffolk." There is no reasonable doubt 

 They flew over his head and down to a low that the birds were the Red-Winged 

 meadow (to join Starlings, Rooks, and Starling, a common North American 

 Jackdaws), so that as they flew beyond species, but the specimens which have 

 him he distinctly saw their partly red been obtained in Britain labour under 

 wings. Would these be theAmerican Red- the suspicion of being escaped birds. 



