FOUND IN NORFOLK. 2$ 



gray bird intermingled with some yellowish [whitish 

 written above\ fethers [the bill crossed out] somewhat 

 long legged & the bill about an inch & half, esteemed a 

 dayntie dish. 



Loxias or curuirostra a bird a litle bigger than a 

 Thrush of fine colours & prittie note [the m crossed out] 

 differently from other birds, the [lower crossed out] upper 

 & lower bill crossing each other, of a very tame nature, 

 comes about the beginning of summer. I have known 

 them kept in cages butt not to outliue the winter. 



A kind of coccothraustes calld a [cobble crossed out] 

 coble bird*" bigger than a Thrush, finely coloured & 

 shaped like a Bunting [it comes crossed out] it is [some- 

 times crossed out] chiefly [written above] seen [about 

 crossed out] in sumer about cherrie time. 



[fol. 1 6 verso.] A small bird of prey" [some- 

 thing smeared out here] calld a birdcatcher about 

 the bignesse of a Thrush and linnet coloured with a 

 longish white bill & sharpe of a very feirce & wild 



occurred rather later. It was also known as the "Shrieker." Browne 

 again refers to this bird in the fourth letter to Merrett, where he calls it 

 " barker " (a name which he had no doubt erroneously previously applied 

 to the Avoset), or " Latrator, a marshbird, about the bigness of a 

 Godwitt," and once again under the name of " Yare-whelp, or barker," 

 in his fifth letter ; it may be that the name " barker " was applied indis- 

 criminately to either species. As Lubbock names this bird as one of the 

 " five species in particular " which " used formerly to swarm in our marshes " 

 ("Fauna of Norfolk"), one would have thought Browne would have been 

 better acquainted with it than seems to have been the case from the 

 hesitating way in which he uses the vernacular name. 



*' The Hawfinch was evidently not a very well-known bird in Browne's 

 time, either to himself or Willughby ; the latter says, "it is said to build 

 in holes of trees." It has steadily increased in frequency as a breeding 

 species with us for the last twenty years. 



<i This paragraph is written on the back of fol. l6. The Red-backed 

 Shrike, Lanius collurio, is the only species of Lanius mentioned by 

 Browne ; it is singular that he omits all mention of another bird, and that 

 an essentially Norfolk species which would have been new to the Pinax — 



