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black, killed at Denham, in Suffolk (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 

 Nat. Soc. 1869-70, p. 26). Parti-coloured varieties are occasionally 

 met with. 



Rabbit. — Very common. A beautiful variety known as the 

 " silver sprig" has long been established in some localities, par- 

 ticularly on Thetford warren; black varieties also occur; and 

 Mr. Gurney shot a rabbit on Gorton Denes, Lowestoft, which was 

 decorated with alternate black and gray markings like a Gyprus 

 cat. 



Right Whale (Balaena mysticetus, Linn.) — Messrs. Paget men- 

 tion "a small one taken near Yarmouth, July 8th, 1784." In an 

 editorial note to Sir Thomas Browne's 'Account of Fishes, &c., 

 found in Norfolk and on the Goast' (Wilkin's edition, 1835, 

 vol. iv, p. 326) it is stated that a whale (species not given), 

 fifty-eight feet long, was cast ashore at Overstrand about 1822, 

 and another went spouting past Gromer in the autumn of the 

 same year. 



Razor-back Common Fin Whale (Physalus Antiquorum, Gray). 

 —Messrs. Paget say, "Balaena physalis, fin-backed whale, has 

 several times been seen and taken in herring-nets." August 27th, 

 1842, one was taken in the estuary of the Ouse, near Lynn, which 

 measured forty-two feet in length. January 25th, 1851, another 

 taken in the same place measured eighteen feet (qy. Balaenoptera 

 rostrata). January 12th, 1857 (circa), one stranded on Winterlon 

 beach, and killed by the fishermen, measured forty-five feet : the 

 skull of this specimen is preserved in the Gollege of Surgeons' 

 Museum. November 3rd, 1858, one taken off Wainfleet, on the 

 Lincolnshire side the entrance to the Wash, measured thirty-two 

 feet. 



Pike Whale or Lesser Fin Whale (Balaenoptera rostrata. Gray). 

 — A whale, probably of this species, is mentioned in a note to 

 Sir Thomas Browne's list, as having been cast ashore and killed at 

 Runton, near Gromer, towards the end of 1829 : it is described as ' 

 twenty-four feet long; nose very sharp and pointed; nearly black 

 on the back and white below in folds; baleen nearly white. In 

 November, 1860, an adult male of this species was stranded on 

 Overstrand beach; it measured twenty-five feet in length: the 

 skeleton was presented, by Mr. J. H. Gurney, to the Gollege of 

 Surgeons' Museum, where it now is, and a full description is given 

 by Mr. W. H. Flower in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 



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