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Southwold, and Mr. Hoy had recorded the capture of one in his 

 neighbourhood not long before. 



An adult male bird of the rose ouzel {Pastor roseus) was ob- 

 tained in the same locality as the first-mentioned honey buzzard in 

 the month of June 1836. This bird is now in the possession of J. H. 

 Gumey, Esq. The Bohemian waxwing {Bomhy cilia garrula), and 

 the crossbill {Loxia curvirostra) have both been shot three or four 

 times in as many years. The hoopoe has been once, at least, taken 

 here in that period. 



Two specimens of the white-tailed eagle {Halicietos albicilla) were 

 procured last December — the one at Hasborough, the other at 

 Ormesby. 



I cannot avoid what may be deemed going out of my district to 

 notice the occurrence of one of those birds whose loss every orni- 

 thologist must deplore. A fine female specimen of the great bustard 

 {Otis tarda) was procured in the early part of May 1837, and was 

 set up by Mr. King, of London Street, Norwich, in whose shop I saw 

 it in the month of June. In size it was not more than a common 

 turkey. The markings on the back and scapulars were exceedingly 

 handsome. This bi^d, I believe, is now in the possession of the Hon. 

 F. W. Keppel. 



The occurrence of the Tringa pectoralis and TV. platyrhyncha has 

 already been noticed by Mr. Hoy in the * Magazine of Natural Hi- 

 story,' New Series, vol. i. in which place he has also mentioned the 

 peculiar form of the bill of the latter bird, by which it may at once 

 be distinguished. 



The brown snipe (Scolopax grisea) was shot on Yarmouth Beach 

 in October 1836. This bird had not completely obtained its winter 

 plumage when procured. The bill is rugose and punctured at the tip 

 in a similar manner to that of the common snipe. Why Dr. Leach 

 should have given to it the name oi Macroramphus is perhaps not easily 

 accounted for. Its bill is certainly of a considerable length, but not 

 so long in proportion as that of the common snipe. I was kindly fa- 

 voured with the sight of this bird by Leonard Rudd, Esq. in whose 

 collection it now is. The same gentleman has also S2)ccimens of the 

 Kentish plover (Charadrius Cantianns) and one of the little gull 

 {Larus minutus) which he shot at tliis place. 



Mr. Stephen Miller of this town, the possessor of a very nume- 

 rous collection of British birds, has an adult specimen of the ivory 

 gull {I,arus eburneus). Nothing could more aptly describe the co- 

 lour of this bird than its name. It is intermediate in size between 

 the herring and black-headed gulls. 



