20 NOTES ON CERTAIN BIRDS 



marshland & other parts & abides not aboue a moneth 

 or 6 weekes. 



[fol. 13 verso.'] Another small bird somewhat larger 

 than a stint called a churre & is comonly taken amongst 

 them. 



[resume fol. 14.J Stints in great numbers about the 

 seashore & marshes about stifkey Burnham & other 

 parts. 



Pluuialis or plouer green & graye in great plentie 

 about Thetford & many other heaths, they breed not 

 with us butt in some parts of Scotland, and plentifully 

 in Island [Iceland]. 



[Fol. 15.] The lapwing or vannellus comon ouer all 

 the heaths. 



Cuccowes'" of 2 sorts the one farre exceeding the other 

 in bignesse. some have attempted to keepe them in 

 warme roomes all the winter butt it hath not succeeded, 

 in their migration they range very farre northward 

 for in the summer they are to bee found as high as 

 Island. 



Avis pugnax. Ruffes'' a marsh bird of the greatest 



^ The circumstance which gave rise to the idea that there were two 

 kinds of Cuckoos, differing only in size, might possibly be discovered were 

 it worth the research ; possibly it would be found that the second species 

 was of foreign origin. Aldrovandus, as quoted by Willughby, says, " Our 

 Bolognese Fowlers do unanimously affirm, that there are found a greater 

 and a lesser sort of Cuckows ; and besides, that the greater are of two 

 kinds, which are distinguished one from the other by the only difference of 

 colour : but the lesser differ from the greater in nothing else but magnitude." 

 Perhaps it was Browne's latent respect for antiquity which led him to 

 mention the tradition. 



81 It is only necessary to add to Browne's interesting account of this 

 remarkable bird that it lingered longer in Norfolk as a breeding species 

 than in any other part of Britain, but that although it still visits us in 

 spring it is doubtful whether it has bred in the one favourite locality to 

 which it clung so tenaciously for the last few years. The "Marshland," 

 here referred to as explained in a previous note, is a tract of country situated 

 in north-west Norfolk, near King's Lynn. 



