294 BIKDS OF NORFOLK. 



1702-1769), to have been killed in the spring of 1847: 

 the first a male, in March, and a female in the following 

 May. In January of the same year, as recorded in the 

 above journal by Mr. Alfred Newton, one was obtained 

 in a wood at Barningham, and a female was shot at 

 Hales worth, in the adjoining county, in February, 

 1855. Mr. George Master also informs me that he 

 shot one at Snettisham, in Norfolk, in October, 1856. 

 Mr. Hunt, in his " British Ornithology," thus speaks 

 of this bird, as observed by himself in close vicinity 

 to this city, though in a locality where one would be 

 least likely to look for it at the present time* : ee We 

 have frequently seen this species on some willow trees, 

 at the extremity of our garden, not only during the 

 summer months, but also in the winter season, running 

 up the branches with great celerity." 



YUNX TORQUILLA, Linnaeus. 

 WRYNECK. 



The cuckoo's leader or cuckoo's mate, as this bird is 

 frequently called, is an annual summer visitant, arriving 

 in April and leaving again in September, and breeds in 

 the county. Mr. Yarrell, on the authority of the late 

 Mr. John Drew Salmon, who formerly resided in this 

 county, mentions a singular instance of the persevering 

 attachment of this species to a particular nesting place, 

 in which case no less than twenty-two eggs were 



* Mr. Hunt, as I learn from his son, a cashier in the Norwich 

 Post-office, was then residing in Rose Lane, and his garden 

 occupied the present site of Lloyd's stonemason's yard. It is 

 difficult, however, to realize in that now busy thoroughfare a 

 quiet suburb between Thorpe and the city, rural enough to attract 

 these woodpeckers from the Thorpe woods on the further side of 

 the river. 



