A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



5 1 . Grey Wagtail. Motacilla melanope, Pallas. 

 Not a common bird in Norfolk, but shows 



a preference to some few favoured localities. 



52. Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla 



fiava, Linn. 



This species has been killed in a few in- 

 stances in Norfolk in the spring, but can only 

 be regarded as a straggler. 



M. cinereicapilla, Savi, the Mediterranean 

 variety, with grey crown and very little eye- 

 streak, has been recorded for Norfolk (Gurney, 

 Trans. Norf. and Nor. Nat. Soc, ii. p. 226). 

 Whether this is deserving of specific rank or 

 not, Mr. Gurney points out that an example, 

 now in the possession of Mr. F. Boynton, 

 precisely similar to his bird, was killed at 

 Brighton in 1867. 



53. Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla rail (Bona- 



parte). 

 Generally distributed in summer in the 

 marshy districts of the county. 



54. Tree-Pipit. Anthus trivialis (Linn.). 



A summer migrant in the wooded districts. 



55. Meadow-Pipit. Jnthus pratensis (Linn.). 

 A common resident, receiving additions in 



autumn. 



56. Tawny Pipit. Anthus campestris (Linn.). 

 A female was taken in a clap-net at Yar- 

 mouth on October 7th, 1897 ; it has also 

 occurred at Lowestoft. 



57. Richard's Pipit. Anthus richardi,Y\s\\\ot. 

 Richard's pipit has been taken near Yar- 

 mouth four times in winter and twice in 

 spring. 



58. Rock-Pipit. Anthus ohscurus (Latham). 

 This species is not uncommon on the coast, 



more particularly in the autumn. It is sus- 

 pected of having bred at Blakeney in 1880.' 



59. Scandinavian Rock-Pipit. Anthus rupes- 



tris, Nilsson. 

 The Scandinavian rock-pipit has been 

 several times shot in Norfolk in the months 

 of February and March. 



60. Golden Oriole. Oriolus galhula, Linn. 

 This beautiful bird is a very rare summer 



visitor to Norfolk. There is reason to be- 

 lieve, however, that it has nested in this 

 county more than once. 



1 F. D. Power, Tratis. Norf. and Nor. Nat. Sar., 

 iii. p. 3+6. 



61. Great Grey Shrike. Lanius excuiitor, 



Linn. 

 An occasional visitor, generally in autumn. 

 The variety with a single alar bar known as 

 L. major, Pallas's grey shrike, is not an in- 

 frequent visitor during autumn and winter, 

 perhaps the more frequent of the two. 



62. Lesser Grey Shrike. Lanius minor, 



Gmelin. 

 Has been met with only twice in Norfolk, 

 in both instances near Yarmouth and both in 

 the spring time, first in 1869 and again in 

 1875. 



63. Red-backed Shrike or Butcher-Bird. 



Lanius collurio, Linn. 

 A summer migrant, not so frequent as 

 formerly. 



64. Woodchat. Lanius pomeranus, Sparrman. 

 Hunt, in his List of Norfolk Birds states 



that Mr. Scales (of Beechamwell) assured him 

 he had killed this rare species in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Beechamwell, where he has 

 known it to breed and rear its young. But 

 for the fact that both Scales and Hunt were 

 excellent observers, one would be inclined to 

 regard this statement with doubt ; it seems to 

 be in some degree corroborated by the state- 

 ment of J. D. Hoy {Mag. Nat. Hist, iv., 

 343) to the effect that one killed near Swaff- 

 ham, which is in the neighbourhood of 

 Beechamwell, was in the collection of the 

 Rev. Robert Hamond.^ Hoy's communica- 

 tion is dated March 1 6th, 1831. The 

 specimen, also mentioned by Hoy, as killed 

 by Mr. Adams ' of Gorleston, Norfolk,' is 

 stated by Messrs. Paget to have been killed 

 by that gentleman at Bradwell, Suffolk, 

 in April, 1829. Selby {Brit. Orn., i. 153) 

 mentions one as having been seen, but not 

 shot, by Rev. R. Hamond, some time before 

 1833. Mr. Gurney has one in his collec- 

 tion, killed near Yarmouth, in April, 1859, 

 and another was procured at the same place 

 in 1885. 



65. Waxwing. Ampelis garrulus, Linn. 



An accidental winter visitor, occasionally 

 arriving in considerable numbers, but very 

 uncertain. 



66. Pied Flycatcher. Muscicapa atricapilla, 



Linn. 



A somewhat rare spring and autumn mi- 

 grant, believed to have occasionally nested 

 here. 



1 There are three woodchats at present in the 

 Hamond collection, all of which may be of local 

 origin. 



