192 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



" shot at the mouth of the Norwich river, September 

 13th, 1824,"* which came into the possession . of Mr. 

 J. J. Gurney, of Earlham;f and had "four more in 

 company with them." These, in Sir W. Hooker's MS., 

 are said to have been male and female, the former 

 weighing one pound and a-half, the latter one pound 

 two ounces. The length of the male from the tip of the 

 beak to the end of the toes was thirty inches, of the 

 female twenty-six inches, and from tip to tip of wings, 

 the former measured forty inches, and the bill was five 

 inches long. 



In January, 1825, according to Mr. Lombe's MS. 

 notes, two more, male and female, were killed at 

 Yarmouth, and may possibly be the pair which are 

 still preserved in his fine collection at Wymondham. 



In Mr. Hunt's List, published in 1829, a single 

 specimen, killed near Cromer, in Mr. Norman's collec- 

 tion, is said to have been " sold to him under the name 

 of the "black curlew," which fully corroborates Mr. 

 Lubbock's statement as to the name commonly applied 

 to this species. 



Again, in October, 1833, according to Mr. Lombe, a 

 single specimen was killed near Norwich, which is also 

 mentioned in Mr. Joseph Clarke's MS. notes, the latter, 

 moreover, stating that the two which formed part of 

 the late Mr. Miller's Yarmouth collection were procured 

 near that town in 1832 .J Strangely enough from that 

 time, until the year 1850, I know of no instance of this 

 species appearing on our eastern coast, but on the 27th 

 of May of that year, as recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney in 



* No doubt, the pair recorded by Mr. Youell in the " Linnean 

 Transactions" (vol. xiv., p. 588), as killed at Yarmouth in 

 October, 1824. 



f Now in Mr. J. H. Ghirney's collection. 



I cannot trace these birds which were sold with the rest of 

 Mr. Miller's collection in 1853. 



