50 THE ZOOLUGIST. 
Owl with unusually dark plumage; the whole of the breast, 
abdomen, and under parts being of a uniform deep buff colour.* 
Repwine.—On January 5th a male Redwing, obtained at 
Neatishead, in Norfolk, was piebald about the head and neck, 
and had several white feathers in the wings. 
Twirr.—Four adult males with red breasts were caught by a 
birdcatcher in a field near Norwich on March 15th, and were 
purchased by me for my aviary. 
Hawrincnu.—Between Noy. 28th and the end of December 
about a dozen Hawfinches, nearly all males, were killed near 
Somerleyton railway-station, in Suffolk; and on December 19th 
and 22nd three adult males were shot in a market garden at 
East Carleton, near Norwich. 
GREENFINCH.—A_ peculiarly coloured variety was shot at 
Yoxford, in Suffolk, on November 27th, by Dr. Baylie of that 
town. On examining it I found it to be an adult male; the 
whole surface of its plumage of a pale buff colour, lighter in tint 
on the throat, abdomen, tail, and tips of wings. The outer 
edges of the primaries were tinged with pale sulphur, beak and 
legs of pale brown, and eyes as in ordinary examples. 
Waxwinc.—Mr. J. Wormersley told me he saw a solitary 
Waxwing in his garden at Thorpe on Christmas Day. 
Hoopor.—An adult female Hoopoe was sent me for preserva- 
tion, on August 8rd, from Beccles. It was shot during the same. 
afternoon in that neighbourhood. 
Srartinc. — An albino Starling, which proved to be an 
immature male, was shot at Attleborough on August Ist, and 
brought to me by a farmer of that parish. It had just moulted a 
few glossy feathers of its mature dress, which were also white. 
The tip of the lower mandible was gone,—probably shot away,— 
and the upper mandible had grown much beyond the usual 
length. 
Lesser Sporrep Wooprrcker.—A pair of these birds were 
seen at Rareningham, in Norfolk, on February 18th. The male 
was shot and sent to me. It weighed three-quarters of an ounce. 
The Earl of Kimberley states that these little birds have been 
repeatedly seen in his park during the last three or four seasons, 
but cannot say they have ever bred there; he has given strict 
orders for their preservation. Several pairs of Picus major breed 
* See Stevenson’s ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. i., p. 53. 
