368 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 



Gurney recorded a second example as killed on the 

 Denes at Yarmouth, .in the last week of September, 

 1848 ; but in a subsequent note in the same journal 

 (p. 2568), he adds, " I now much regret to say that I 

 fear that I was imposed upon with respect to this 

 specimen, and that it is in reality a foreign one." 

 Subsequent enquiry has confirmed this impression, but 

 the bird in question ^ill be found in the British series 

 (No. 246) at the Norwich Museum. 



On the 30th of September, 1853, however, a speci- 

 men, now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's possession, was obtained 

 near Yarmouth, and was thus recorded by him in the 

 "Zoologist" (p. 4124): "I had the opportunity of 

 examining this sandpiper in the flesh ; it was a female, 

 and apparently a bird of the year ; it was not fat but in 

 very fair condition. The stomach contained some small 

 seeds and the remains of a few insects, but too mutilated 

 to be recognisable with clearness." Since that date, 

 two more authentic specimens have been also procured 

 in Norfolk. The first of these, in my own collection, 

 was killed at Cais^er, near Yarmouth, on the 16th of 

 September, 1865, and was brought to me in the flesh ; 

 unfortunately a shot had rendered the sex undistin- 

 guishable by dissection. The second, and last to my 

 knowledge observed on our coast, was netted by a man 

 named Hornigold, in Terrington marsh, near Lynn, 

 on the 9th of January, 1868. This bird, which was 

 preserved for the Lynn Museum by Mr. Wilson, of 

 that town, proved to be a female, and, judging from 

 the plumage, a young bird of the previous year. 

 Through the kindness of Dr. Lowe, I had the pleasure 

 of examining this bird soon after it was mounted, and 

 of comparing it with my own and Mr. Gurney's speci- 

 men. 



Unfortunately Mr. Hoy's brief account of the bird 

 which he purchased from Harvey, of Yarmouth, affords 



