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this species coming over from seawards. When it first came over the shore, it was flying so low 

 that I could plainly distinguish its long legs stretched out behind, like those of the Heron, the 

 black bar across the wings, formed by the quill-feathers and wing-coverts, contrasting strongly 

 with the pure white of the rest of the plumage. I watched it for some minutes as, after taking 

 two or three turns over the houses, it slowly soared to an immense height, and then went steadily 

 off in a south-westerly direction. It was shot next day, six miles from Yarmouth ' — at Halvergate, 

 as Mr. Fisher subsequently informed Mr. Yarrell. ' In Mr. Dowell's notes I find two records of 

 Storks observed at Salthouse, one purchased by Mr. J. H. Gurney several years ago, but not now 

 in his collection (though he still possessed a more recent specimen killed on Breydon), and 

 another seen in the Cley marshes, in the summer of 1849, within shot of the Salthouse bank. 



"On the 7th of June, 1848, an adult female, now in the possession of the Rev. H. T. Frere, 

 of Burston, was shot on Breydon, as noticed by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher in the ' Zoologist ' 

 (p. 2291). In 1852, Mr. L. H. Irby recorded in the same journal (p. 3476) the occurrence of an 

 adult male on Breydon, about the 15th of March (now in Major Irby's possession) ; and in 

 February of the same year an immature specimen, also killed near Yarmouth, was sent up to 

 Norwich for preservation. This bird had evidently received a previous wound, from the effects 

 of which it had been gradually wasting, and was thus happily destroyed. A second example in 

 the Norwich Museum (No. 211), in adult plumage, was procured at Brooke, near Norwich, in 

 August 1858. 



" On the 3rd of October, 1855, whilst travelling by an early train on the Great Eastern 

 Railway, I saw one of these birds in a low meadow, at Lakenham, near Norwich, not far from 

 the line, and, as long as I could observe it, perfectly undisturbed by the passing carriages. It 

 was standing apparently in a little watercourse, as I could see only part of its legs, with its head 

 and neck thrown back, and its red beak resting on its breast in the most perfect repose ; whilst 

 the marked contrast of the black wing-feathers to the pure white of the rest of the plumage was 

 strikingly visible in the morning sun. 



" On the 14th of September, 1856, a very fine Stork was seen on the farm of Mr. Sewell, of 

 North Pickenham, near Swaffham, from whence it flew into some low grounds belonging to 

 Mr. R. Hall Say. Mr. Say's keeper went in pursuit, and succeeded in shooting it in a long 

 plantation belonging to that gentleman. 



" In 1858 a fine specimen, now in the collection of the Rev. C. J. Lucas, and formerly in 

 that of Mr. A. F. Sealy, was shot at Yarmouth, and was purchased by the latter gentleman in 

 the flesh. 



" On the 29th of November, 1860, an adult female was killed at Hickling, which, like the 

 one in 1852, had suffered greatly from a previous wound, as shown by its soiled plumage and 

 poor condition. 



"About the 17th of May, 1861, an adult female was shot on the late Mr. Cator's estate at 

 Woodbastwick, and is still, I believe, preserved at the hall. This bird contained an egg quite 

 ready for exclusion, which was only slightly cracked on one side by the fall of the bird. 



" And last on the list to the present time is an adult bird, in Mr. Overend's collection at 

 Yarmouth, which, as stated in the ' Field' (vol. xxv. p. 384), was killed on the 24th of May, 1865, 

 in some marshes at Oby, about seven miles from the coast." 



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