VI INTRODUCTION. 



or has been in danger of becoming lost to us as a resident, 

 but in most cases I have studied to set forth the facts in 

 as brief a form as possible, avoiding descriptions of 

 plumage, except where a few remarkable varieties are 

 concerned, such information now being within the 

 reach of all in one or other of the excellent modern 

 works on the subject. 



I have followed the same general arrangement and 

 nomenclature as adopted by Mr. Stevenson, that of 

 the third edition of YarrelPs "British Birds;" but, 

 like him, I have made such changes in the scientific 

 names as seemed desirable. 



The lapse of time since the appearance of the first 

 and second volumes has rendered the addition of such 

 an Appendix as Mr. Stevenson had intended all the more 

 necessary. In this I have noticed all the species which 

 during that period have been for the first time recog- 

 nised as occurring in the county, followed by brief 

 remarks on a few which have become better known, to 

 us than when Mr. Stevenson wrote ; and, finally, have 

 enumerated a few others which were included in the 

 " Birds of Norfolk " on what is now considered insuf- 

 ficient authority. 



It remains only for me to express my sincere thanks 

 for the kindly help which I have received in the pro- 

 secution of my task, and to acknowledge the sources 

 from which I have received information; the latter 

 I have always endeavoured to do in the text, even 

 at the risk of repetition, but the former is a much 

 more difficult duty, as it would require me to give a 

 list of Norfolk observers of portentous length, and in 

 the words of Simon Wilkin, in his preface to Sir 



