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Cromer, and a pair in the Norwich Museum to have 

 been killed at Yarmouth.* 



Selby (1833) figures a young bird shot near Yar- 

 mouth, which was presented to him by the late Mr. H. 

 Girdlestone, of that town ; and another Yarmouth speci- 

 men, in the Saffron Walden Museum, was also obtained 

 at Yarmouth in 1833. 



On the 2nd of August, 1848, a female, shot at 

 Salthouse, is recorded by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher 

 in the " Zoologist " (p. 2292) ; and from Mr. Dowell's 

 notes I find that a second specimen was killed the 

 same year at Salthouse, on the 6th of September. 

 Mr. Upcher, of Sherringham, has an immature bird, 

 shot at Salthouse some few years back. Here also 

 must be noticed, although not seen in this county, the 

 occurrence of a large flock of these birds on the other 

 side of the "Wash," near Wisbech, in 1849, of which 

 Mr. T. W. Foster, of the Wisbech Museum, gives the 

 following interesting account in the "Zoologist" (p. 

 2623) : " Eight specimens were caught in a plover net 

 on Guyhirn Wash, on the llth instant (October), all 

 of which are now in my possession ; two of the speci- 

 mens were undergoing the change between the summer 

 and winter dress ; the other six had assumed it. Upon 

 dissection, five of them proved to be males and three 

 females. A flock of twelve were seen, eleven alighted, 

 but in taking them out of the net, three escaped. 

 Pennant named this bird the Cambridge godwit, 

 probably from its being commonly found in that 



* Neither this pair nor a specimen killed at Elveden, Suffolk, 

 by General Newton, somewhere between the years 1838 and 1841, 

 and recorded I believe, at the time, by the late Mr. Salmon, in 

 London's magazine, are now in existence, having been unfortu- 

 nately destroyed by moth ; but an immature bird, in the Museum 

 collection (No. 218a), is marked Norfolk, although the date is nob 

 given. 



