NOTES FROM NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 53 
from the intestines. On dissecting a young Thrush that had 
been killed in a market-garden near Norwich, on July 21st, 
I found its stomach filled with ripe white currants, of which I 
counted as many as thirty; it also contained a small garden- 
snail, which it had swallowed without breaking the shell. 
FIREcREST AND GoLpcrest.—An adult male of the former 
species was brought me from Attlebridge, near Norwich, where it 
had been captured on November 29th, 1879. Having been just 
killed, it was in a perfectly fresh state and in splendid plumage. 
Having sold it to a customer immediately I had mounted it, 
I omitted placing it on record; and Mr. J. H. Gurney having 
since seen it, suggested that I should do go (although late), and 
add it to these notes, which I now have the pleasure of doing with 
the following particulars from my notes made at the time :— 
Total length, 4 in.; tip to tip of fully-extended wings, 62 in.; 
wing from carpus, 2} in.; tail, 14 in.; bill, 5-16ths in.; tarsus, 
fin.; tibia, 13-16ths in. The stomach was empty. It proved 
to be somewhat larger than a Goldcrest with which I compared it, 
placing them side by side. I have the following note on an 
unusually large example of the Goldcrest, an adult male, shot at 
Lynn on January 1st, 1884, and posted to me:—Total length, 
47 in.; wing from carpus, 23 in.; fully-extended wings, 63 in. ; 
bill, 5-16ths in.; tarsus, 3 in.; it weighed 2 drms. (apothecaries’ 
weight). 
BramBuinc. — When reading Mr. O. V. Alpin’s note (Zool. 
1884, p. 341) on the occurrence of the Brambling in Oxfordshire 
on March 16th, a date which he considers unusually late for this 
species to stay, I referred to a specimen, an adult male, in my 
collection, which I find according to its label and entry in my 
note-book was shot by myself on April 10th, 1872, at Beeston 
Regis. There were five or six of these birds on the top branches 
of a fir, and when I secured this one to make sure of the species 
I did not follow the others, which then flew to another fir a 
short distance off. 
SHorE Lark. — On February 11th, 1884, I received a female 
bird of this species that had been shot in the neighbourhood of 
Twyford. 
KinerisHer. — On August 9th last I dissected a Kingfisher, 
and found in the stomach a few fish-bones and remains of a 
“water boatman” (Notonecta), and other aquatic insects. On 
