NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 411 



many, if not most of them, is uncertain, it is not surprising that 

 much difference of opinion should exist as to the most natural 

 mode of grouping them together. 



Their arrangement into the following six races, founded to a 

 certain extent, on the form and development of the ears, perhaps 

 affords an approximation to a natural classification :— 



I. Wolf-like dogs. IV. Hounds. 



II. Greyhounds. V. Mastiffs. 



III. Spaniels. VI. Terriers. 



By the judicious crossing of these half-dozen types, it would 

 seem possible, iu time, to produce every one of the present 

 existing breeds of domestic dog. 



OENITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 



By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 374). 



A PAIR of Snow Buntings and a pair of Bramblings both 

 nested, and had eggs, in my aviary in June, but unfortuately no 

 young were hatched. In each case the male assumed the most 

 perfect summer plumage. I also noticed for the first time in my 

 experience, that a male Twite re-assumed the flame colour on 

 the upper tail-coverts and a Lesser Eedpoll the red on its fore- 

 head, which had been lost for a time, and is hardly ever re- 

 assumed by such birds in confinement. 



On the 18th of June, this year, I heard the Cuckoo's note 

 seven or eight times repeated, when sitting in my garden, on the 

 Unthank's Road, within a few minutes' walk of the Market Place ; 

 and a few days afterwards I saw one on a fence, as close to the 

 city as Mount Pleasant Lane. 



Lesser Redpolls and Goldfinches had nests and eggs in my 

 aviary by the first week in July. 



An adult Magpie, found dead on the 15th, and a young one 

 trapped a few days later, at Northrepps, proved the nestino- of 

 that species in this vicinity, in spite of all precautions in the 

 interest of game preservers. 



On the 24th, I spent an hour or two on Surlingham Broad, 

 but though a bright, sunny day and still, with a south-west 



