394 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



shot on a salt marsh, a different locality to that where 

 all the other birds were obtained in this district, which 

 were found on the marram or sand-hills ; but this may 

 be attributable to the birds having been disturbed from 

 the latter during the morning previous to being found 

 in the marshes." This specimen was killed at Holme, 

 near Hunstanton, where so many had been obtained 

 in the summer ; indeed, a certain number remained 

 about those preserved sand-hills from their first arrival, 

 and there, if any females did nest in this county, it is 

 quite possible they might have done so, without being 

 observed. The only other record of their appearance so 

 late in the year was contained in a communication to 

 the "Field" of November 28th, 1863, by Mr. Hele, of 

 Aldborough, in which that gentleman says, "a pair 

 were seen by Colonel Thellusson at Thorpe (Suffolk) one 

 day last week." 



The total number of specimens, therefore, known to 

 have been obtained in the counties of Norfolk and 

 Suffolk, in 1863, amounts to just seventy-five birds, 

 the numbers of each sex, as far as ascertainable, being 

 very nearly equal. In the case, however, of the four 

 examples from Methwold and Santon-Downham, the 

 sex not having been recorded, I have reckoned them in 

 the subjoined table as two males and two females : 



Norfolk.. . 60 . ..(Males 30 



iFemales 30 



Suffolk 15 (Males 8 



(. Females 7 



75 75 



Excepting only in one or two instances, these birds 

 were found, in the above counties, either close to the 

 sea on the sand-hills and shingle, or in the immediate 

 vicinity, feeding in grass fields, or on open waste lands. 



