FOUND IN NORFOLK. 19 



of the brest bone & short heele layes an egge much 

 larger then a Turkey. 



Morinellus or DotterelP about Thetford & the cham- 

 pain wch comes vnto us in September & march staying 

 not long. & is an excellent dish. 



There is also a sea dotterell somewhat lesse butt 

 better coloured then the former. 



Godwyts taken chiefly in marshland, though other 

 parts not without them accounted the dayntiest dish in 

 England & I think for the bignesse, of the biggest price. 



Gnatts or Knots [only so far on p. 14, but as follows on 

 fol. 13 verso]. 



Gnats or Knots a small bird which taken with netts 

 grow excessively fatt. If [by mew struck oui\ being 

 mewed & fed with corne a candle lighted in the roome 

 they feed day & night, & when they are at their 

 hight of fattnesse they beginne to grow lame & are then 

 killed or [else they will fall aw struck out] as at their 

 prime & apt to decline. 



[resume p. 14.] Erythropus or Redshanck a bird comon 

 in the marshes & of comon food butt no dayntie dish. 



A may chitt^ a small dark gray bird litle bigger then 

 a stint of fatnesse beyond any. it comes in may into 



^ The Dotterel visits us much as in Sir T. Browne's time, but in 

 decreased numbers. The Sea Dotterel which Wilkin supposes to be the 

 Ring Plover, is undoubtedly the Turnstone. Willughby says, " Our 

 honoured Friend, Sir Thomas Browne, of Norwich, sent us the picture 

 of this bird by the title of the Sea Dotterel." This is also mentioned in 

 the fifth letter to Merrett. See " Birds of Norfolk," ii., p. 82, for an inter- 

 esting account of Dotterel hawking near Thetford by James I. in the year 

 1610. 



^ Mr. Stevenson, "Birds of Norfolk," ii., p. 233, gives his reasons for 

 coming to the conclusion that the Sanderling {Calidris arenaria) is here 

 referred to, which the absence of a hind toe (see third letter to Merrett) tends 

 to confirm. The " Churre" is only a variant of the name " Purre,^' by 

 which the next species, the Stint, is commonly known, and the Green 

 Plover, now applied to the Lapwing, is an old name for the Golden Plover, 

 which he rightly says [p. 20] does not breed in Norfolk. 



