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80th of April; but I heard one or two singing as late as the first 
week in June. 
Swift. May 12th, Northrepps; 14th, Aylsham; 15th, Norwich. 
Rooks. Young out of nest, May 7th, near Norwich. 
JUNE. 
Lesser Gray Shrike.—This species, the Lanius minor of J. F. 
Gmelin, is included by Professor Newton in the fourth edition of 
Yarrell’s ‘ British Birds, from the occurrence of two specimens— 
one obtained in the Scilly Isles in November, 1851, in the collection 
of Mr. Hearle Rodd, of Penzance; the other at Great Yarmouth, 
in Norfolk, in the spring of 1869, the particulars of which were 
recorded by the present owner of the specimen, Mr. Murray A. 
Mathew, and myself in the ‘ Zoologist’ (S. S. 2060 and 2139). 
From the enquiries I made at that time I felt no hesitation in 
expressing my belief in the genuineness of Mr. Mathew’s bird as 
having actually occurred in a wild state on the Norfolk coast; 
and, in confirmation of the same, I have now the satisfaction of 
recording the occurrence of a second specimen at Yarmouth, which 
was taken alive in a greenhouse, in the very same locality as the 
last—the North End Gardens—in the last week in May of this 
year. On the 2nd of June this bird was brought to me, in the 
flesh, having died in a cage in which it was confined for a few days, 
and it had apparently been dead a day or two. It proved, on 
dissection, to be a male, and, the stomach being perfectly empty, 
the bird had probably refused all food after it was captured. 
Hoopoe.—In the first volume of the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ I gave 
a list of all the specimens of this curious bird that had come to my 
knowledge as killed in Norfolk, or on the immediately adjoining 
coast of Suffolk, from 1850 to 1865, inclusive, showing the extra- 
ordinary regularity of its appearance during the spring months 
and occasionally also in autumn. As if to contradict my assertion, 
however, at that time, that it was much too common to warrant its 
constant persecution and slaughter on our inhospitable coast, I am 
not aware that a single hoopoe has been seen or killed in Norfolk 
during the last ten years, and the only record of its appearance in 
Suffolk that I have met with is a notice in ‘Land and Water’ for 
July 17th, that one was obtained this spring at Herringfleet, near 
Lowestoft. Can any one account for this singular and sudden 
change in the migratory course of this species? 
