Notes and Letters 



ON THE 



Natural History of Norfolk. 



NOTES* ON CERTAIN BIRDS FOUND 

 IN NORFOLK. 



[MSS. SLOAN. 1830. FOL, 5-I9, AND 3 I.J 



[The first four pages in the volume of Manuscript consist of 

 two inserted letters from Merrett to Browne (see Appendix A.) ; 

 these are on ordinary letter paper 6i inches by 7 inches. The 

 notes commence on folio 5 and are continued to folio ig ; one 

 leaf, containing an account of the Roller (numbered 31), is bound 

 up with the notes on the Fishes, &c., which are numbered con- 

 secutively with the Birds ; the paper of the volume is foolscap, 

 II J by 7^ inches, and written, with a few exceptions, which appear 

 to be subsequent additions, on the right-hand opening only. 

 There are four folios after the Birds, the first of which is blank ; 

 the others, numbered 20, 31, and 22, contain rough memoranda 

 on the Birds and Fishes, the substance of which is embodied in 

 the other notes ; the Fishes commence on folio 23. There are 

 many erasures, interlineations, and substituted words which 

 indicate hasty writing, and the alterations are not in all cases 

 complete, thus rendering the sense occasionally obscure ; these 

 emendations I have thought it best to preserve as indicating the 

 author's line of thought. In the foot-notes which follow I have 



* The heading adopted by Wilkin, for which I cannot find that he had 

 any authority, is certainly misleading, for the brief and fragmentary notes 

 which follow, although of great interest, can hardly be called "An 

 Account of the Birds (or Fishes) found in Norfolk," as there are many 

 species of each inhabiting or visiting the county which must have beer> 

 well-known to Browne, but of which we find no mention. 



