FOUND IN NORFOLK. 1/ 



yet retaine it was 3 yards & half between the ex- 

 tremities of the wings the chowle & beake answering the 

 vsuall discription the extremities of the wings for a 

 spanne deepe browne the rest of the body white, a 

 fowle [not found struck out] wch none could remember 

 upon this coast, about the same time I heard one of the 

 kings pellicans was lost at St James', perhaps this 

 might bee the same. 



Anas Arctica clusii wch though hee placeth about 

 the faro Islands is the same wee call a puffin comon 

 about Anglisea in wales & sometimes [for struck out] 

 taken upon our seas not sufficiently described by the 

 name of puffinus the bill being so remarkably differing 

 from other ducks & not horizontally butt meridionally 

 formed to feed in the clefts of the rocks of insecks, shell- 

 fish & others. 



The great number of riuers riuulets & plashes of water 

 makes hemes [to abound in these struck out] & herneries 

 to abound in these parts, yong hensies being esteemed 

 a festiuall dish & much desired by some palates. 



The Ardea stellaris botaurus, or bitour^" is also comon 

 & esteemed the better dish, in the belly of one I found 

 a frog in an hard frost at Christmas, another I kept in a 

 garden 2 yeares feeding it with fish mice & frogges. in 

 defect whereof making a scrape for sparrowes & small 

 birds, the bitour made shifft to maintaine herself upon 

 them. 



^ This is one of the birds once common enough in Norfolk, which in the 

 present day is only a winter and spring migrant. The last eggs of the 

 Bittern were taken in this county on 30th of March, 1868 ; the last 

 "boom" of a resident was heard in May, 1886, in the August of which 

 year a young female was killed at Reedham with down still adhering to its 

 feathers ; this was probably the last Norfolk-bred Bittern. In the "Vulgar 

 Errors," book 3, chapter xxvii., seption 4, is a discourse on the "mugient 

 noise " of the Bittern and the mode of its production, and in a foot-note 

 in the same place is a curious anecdote illustrating the difficulty of 



