of t lie Norfolk and Suffolk Birds. 11 



This circumstance shows that they were then migrating, and it 

 seems highly probable that they came from the Continent. 



Genus IV. Bombycivora. 



1. B. garrula (Waxen Chatterer). 



The Waxen Chatterer, though only an occasional visitant, has 

 not unfrequently made its appearance in these counties, and 

 generally from November to IMarch. Some years since a pro- 

 digious tiock of them were seen in a grove at Bawdsey in Suf- 

 folk, by W. W. Page, Esq., then resident at that place. Mr. 

 Leathes informs us that these birds were in considerable abun- 

 dance at Herringtleet in the winter of 1810. 



Genus V. Coracias. 



1. C. garrula (Roller). 



" In the month of May 1811, Sir Thomas Gooch's keeper 

 shot a female Roller near Benacre in Sutiblk, on the same spot 

 where he had killed the male four years since : the ground they 

 frequented was a coarse sort of heath and fen intermixed." — Brnt. 

 Zool. edit. 1812. In answer to some queries respecting a Roller 

 killed in Suftblk, Mr. Flunt of Norwich replies, " The specimen 

 of the Roller, which was shot at Bungay .September 23, 1817, I 

 suspect w^as a young male bird, as it differs materially in plu- 

 mage from a female one now in my possession. This bird is 

 now in the collection of Joseph Sabine, Esq. I am also credibly 

 informed, that another specimen of the same bird was killed in 

 the neighbourhood of Yarmouth about the same time. A few 

 years since a Roller was shot at Bromeswell in Sutîblk. And 

 late in the spring of 1818 another was killed in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cromer." 



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