FOUND IN NORFOLK. 3 



the spring coming for the most part from the southward 

 those wch come in the Autumn or winter from the 

 northward, so that they are obserued to come in great 

 flocks with a north east wind & to depart with a south 

 west, nor to come [in struck out] only in flocks of one 

 kind butt teals woodcocks felfars thrushes & small birds 

 to come & light together, for the most part some 

 hawkes & birds of pray attending them. 



The great & noble kind of Agle calld Aquila Ges- 

 neri* I have not seen in this country but one I met with 

 [with crossed out] in this country brought from Ireland 

 wch I [presented unto struck out] kept 2 yeares, feeding it 

 with whelpes cattes ratts & the like, in all that while not 

 giving it any water wch I afterwards presented unto 

 the [colledge of physitians at London struck out] my 

 worthy friend Dr Scarburgh. 



of other sorts of Agles there are severall kinds 

 especially of the Halyaetus or fenne Agles some of 



the movements are so exceedingly complex that it would be impossible 

 here to attempt to explain them, and the reader must be referred to Mr. 

 Eagle Clarke's digest of the Reports of the Migration Committee of the 

 British Association (" Report Brit. Ass. for 1876," pp. 4S1-477). 



* The "Aquila" of Gesner here referred to is evidently the Golden 

 Eagle, which species Browne is careful to mention that he had not met 

 with in this county, and that the specimen he sent to Dr. Scarburgh, more 

 than once mentioned, was brought from Ireland. This bird has never been 

 recorded alive in Norfolk. Immature White-tailed Eagles, the "Halyaetus " 

 of the text, still occur almost every autumn or winter on this coast, but no 

 mature example has hitherto been killed. Browne's friend. Sir Charles 

 Scarburgh (1616-1694), was born in London, and is buried at Cranford, in 

 Middlesex. He seems to have been greatly distinguished as an anatomist 

 and physician. He was a friend of William Harvey, whom he succeeded 

 as Lumleyan Lecturer at the College of Physicians (of which he was elected 

 a fellow in 1650). Harvey, out of regard for his " lovinge friend" Dr. 

 Scarburgh, bequeathed to him his "little silver instruments of surgerie " 

 and his velvet gown. ("Diet, of Nat. Biog.") The Golden Eagle sent 

 him by Browne was kept in the College of Physicians in Warwick Lane 

 for two years. 



