136 OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



19. RING OUZEL (Turdus torquatus). 



"1818. April 25th. A Ring Ouzel was shot this day 

 upon Spurling's farm in this parish [Starston]." Mr. Whitear's 

 Journal (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 

 vol. iii., p. 247). 



20. *HEDGE SPARROW (Accentor modularis). 

 A common and, I believe, a constant resident. 



21. "^REDBREAST (Erithacus rubecula). 



Common. Breeding with us from year to year in apparently 

 unvarying numbers. 



22. ^NIGHTINGALE (Daulius luscinia). 

 A summer visitant, sparingly distributed. 



23. * REDSTART (Ruticilla phcenicurus). 



A regular summer visitant, frequenting our gardens, though 

 in small numbers. 



24. STONECHAT (Saxicola rubicola). 

 Not at all common. 



25. *WHINCHAT (Saxicola rubetra). 



Scarce, especially on the Norfolk side of the river. 



26. WHEATEAR (Saxicola cenantke). 

 Met with on migration. 



27. *REED WARBLER (Acrocephalus streperus). " Reed- 



bird." 



A summer visitant, nesting regularly in the beds of Arundo 

 Phraymites which fringe the Waveney in many places between 

 Wey bread and Needham Mills. 



28. *SEDGE WARBLER (Acrocephalus scliosnobcenus]. 



A common summer visitant, haunting rank growths of 

 vegetation near streams, ponds, and ditcher* all over the 

 district. 



29. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER (Acrocephalus nosvius). 



Mr. Whitear writes in his Journal, under date April 27th, 

 1821 : " Saw a Grasshopper Warbler in the hedge of the Beck 

 meadow." He also notes the arrival of the bird at Starston on 

 the 23rd April, 1822. 



