60 BIRDS OP NORFOLK. 



the month, of May, two of which they soon broke, but 

 hatched the other two early in June. The two young 

 ones did not long survive ; how they disappeared I am 

 unable to say, and am almost disposed to think the old 

 birds must have devoured them. I regret that, owing to 

 the nest having been placed in a covered box, I was 

 unable correctly to ascertain the period of incubation." 



NOCTUA TENGMALMI (Gmelin). 

 TENGMALM'S OWL. 



An adult female of this very rare species was killed 

 at Burlingham about the 6th of April, 1857, and is 

 now in the possession of Mr. H. N. Burroughes. This 

 is probably the only one known to have occurred in this 

 county, but a single specimen is recorded by Messrs. 

 Gurney and Fisher to have been taken some years since 

 at Bradwell, in the north-eastern part of Suffolk ; and 

 may have been the bird which was formerly in the 

 collection of Mr. Stephen Miller at Yarmouth.* 



* This celebrated collection, to which I shall have frequent 

 occasion to refer, was sold by auction at Yarmouth, in September, 

 1853, subsequent to Mr. Miller's decease, but the bad state of 

 preservation of many of the specimens, unfortunately rendered 

 them of little value. In a catalogue now before me are the following 

 amongst the rarer birds, described as "principally Norfolk shot": 

 Eider Duck*, Eed-crested Whistling Duck, Buflel-headed Duck, 

 Great White Heron,* Purple Heron,* Little Egret,* Water Ouzel,* 

 Castaneous Duck,* Bimaculated Duck,* Golden Orioles, Night 

 Heron, Boiler, Eed-breasted Snipe, Black-winged Stilt, Squacco 

 Heron, Pine Grosbeak,* Ibis,* Little t^aiUeJi^*, Gyr Falcon (in 

 Mr. Gurney's possession, evidently stuffed from a skin), Ivory Gull, ' 

 Little Gull,* Caspian Tern,* Storm Petrel (white var.), Scop's-eared 

 Owl,* Tengmalm's Owl,* Snowy Owl,* Eagle Owl,* (probably a 

 skin,) and Little Dotterel.* I have taken some pains to trace these 

 rarer specimens into the hands of their present owners, but of 



