144 OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



92. *LA.ND-RAIL (Crex pratensis). 



Not a common bird with us, though hardly a summer 

 passes without one or two pairs breeding in the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



93. SPOTTED CRAKE (Porzana parva). 



Mr. John A. Holmes informs me that he killed a bird of 

 this species some years ago in Gawdy Hall Wood, when 

 pheasant-shooting. 



94. * WATER RAIL (Rallus aquations). 



Rarely seen through the summer, though not uncommon. 

 In winter it is often shot by our sportsmen along the 

 river-side. 



95. *MOORHEN (Gallinula chloropus). 



Common. Between Shotford Bridge and Mendham Priory 

 the Waveney, during the summer, is in many places silted up 

 and choked from bank to bank by a rank growth of (Enaiithe, 

 Sium, and other weeds, which afford protection to numbers of 

 waterhens. 



96. COOT (Fulica atra). 



Occasionally shot upon the river in winter. 



97. RINGED PLOVER ((Egialetis hiaticula). 



Mr. James Elsey, of Mendham, tells me that some years 

 ago he stuffed a Ringed Plover, which was shot in a ploughed 

 iield near his house. 



98. GOLDEN PLOVER (Charadrius pluvialis). 



Flocks appear in our fields in autumn, and again in spring, 

 when they have been shot with the black breast of their 

 breeding plumage. 



^99. * LAPWING (Vanellus vulgar is). "Peewit." 



The Lapwing frequents our fields and marshes in varying 

 numbers throughout the winter. A few pairs breed here and 

 there in the valley of the Waveney, and occasionally upon the 

 larger upland fields. 



100. WOODCOCK (Scolopax rusticola). 



A regular autumn visitor, though only met with in very 

 small numbers. At Flixton, this autumn, twelve birds have 



