OBSERVATIONS ON 



THE BIRDS OF THE HARLESTON DISTRICT. 



BY 



CHARLES CANDLER. 



THE following list, compiled for the most part from casual 

 notes entered in a diary from time to time during the last 

 seven years, without any thought of publication, must not be 

 taken as a complete catalogue of the birds of the district. 

 Many species which I have strong reasons to believe are 

 regular or frequent visitors to our neighbourhood are here 

 omitted, as for want of a larger number of observers (or 

 perhaps I should say of more careful attention on my own 

 part) they have hitherto escaped detection. So far, however, 

 as the observations extend, I have taken care to insure their 

 accuracy, and I think that in this respect they may be con- 

 sidered reliable. It will be found that the notes relate to a 

 much more restricted area than that covered by the observa- 

 tions of the Harleston Botanical Club. Indeed, of the 126 

 species mentioned below, upwards of 100 have been met with 

 in the two parishes of Redenhall and Mendham alone ; and, 

 with a very few exceptions, all have occurred within three 

 miles of Harleston Railway Station. In conformity with 

 Messrs. Gurney and Southwell's authoritative List of the 

 Birds of Norfolk, recently published,* the arrangement and 

 nomenclature adopted by the editors of the fourth edition of 

 Yarrell's British Birds have been followed ; and I am per- 

 sonally indebted to Mr. Thomas Southwell for kindly looking 

 through my notes and otherwise assisting me. 



The species marked with an asterisk are known to breed in 

 the district. 



1. WHITE-TAILED EAGLE (Halioeetus albicilla). 



A bird in immature plumage is still preserved at Gawdy 



* Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, vol. iv., 

 pp. 259286 and 397-432, 



