394 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. [APPENDIX B.] 



strongly, calling out most lustily." No further search 

 was made for eggs or young, probably under the impres- 

 sion that the date was a very unlikely one for the bird 

 to be accompanied by its young, but with so "para- 

 doxical " a species, which has since been found with 

 newly hatched young on the 8th of August, such 

 a search would certainly have been desirable. The 

 strange way in which some of these birds allowed them- 

 selves to be approached and even to be taken by hand 

 when a-pparently uninjured is very remarkable, and it 

 is possible that Mr. Napier's case may simply have been 

 another similar instance. 



It must not be supposed that the following list is by 

 any means so complete as that of which it is the con- 

 tinuation, as from a variety of circumstances I was 

 unable to give the time requisite to continue the inves- 

 tigation so carefully as I had done up to that date, 

 but I think it is sufficiently complete for the present 

 purpose, and I may add that I am indebted for in- 

 formation to the same sources to which I endeavoured 

 to acknowledge my obligation on the previous occa- 

 sion. 



The birds which had so long made their home at 

 Morston all disappeared from thence late in the autumn, 

 and the only entries I have for November, 1888, are 

 a solitary male killed at Blakeney, on the 4th of the 

 month, which had frequented that neighbourhood for 

 some three weeks previous to its being shot, and two 

 others seen at the same place on the 20th. 



In December a male and female were seen on the 

 denes at Yarmouth on the 2nd ; on the 14th four were 

 seen by a party shooting at Thetford ; on the 28th Mr. 

 Hamond's keeper saw two or three near Beechamwell, 

 and on the same day one was killed at Brancaster; on 

 the 29th Mr, A. Napier informed me they were still to 

 be found on the Warham Hills. 



In January, 1889, between the 2nd and 9th, three 

 males and three females were killed near Brancaster; 

 and a single bird heard by Sir E. Newton and seen by Mr. 

 Francis Newcome on the former date when shooting at 

 Wilton ; on the 7th a live female caught at Southrepps 



