GAD WALL. 161 



THE BIRDS OF NORFOLK; 



BEGUN BY THE LATE 



HENRY STEVENSON, F.L.S., 



AND AFTER HIS DEATH CONTINUED BY 



THOMAS SOUTHWELL. 



[All efforts to find the remaining portion of the article printed 

 in 1877, u-hich breaks off at the end of the last page, having failed, 

 though It in knoirn that the article had been completed, I have done 

 'ini/ beat- from other sources to supply the deficiency.] 



The letter from the Rev. John Fountaine, quoted by 

 Mr. Stevenson on the preceding page, is dated May 8th, 

 1875, which fixes the year 1850 as the date of the suc- 

 cessful introduction of the gadwall at Narford. 



Since that time the number of these birds breeding 

 in Norfolk has greatly increased, as also the area over 

 which they are spread. Whether or not the large number 

 of gadwalls which now nest yearly in the south-western 

 portion of the county are all descendants of Mr. Foun- 

 taine's birds, or, as seems probable, their numbers have 

 been increased by wild birds attracted by those which 

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