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Haue you that handsome colourd [bird crossed out] 

 jay [see Note 49] answering the description of Garrulus 

 Argentoratensis & may be called the parret jay I 

 haue one that was killed upon a tree about 5 yeares 

 ago. 



Haue you a may chitt a small dark gray bird \see 

 Note 29] about the bignesse of a stint wch cometh about 

 may & stayeth butt a moneth. a bird of exceeding 

 fattnesse and accounted a daintie dish, they are plenti- 

 fully taken in marshland and about wisbich. 



Haue you a [caprimulgus or written above] dorhawke 

 a bird as bigge as [a] pigeon \see Note 42] with 

 a wide throat bill as little as a titmous & white fethers 

 in the tayle & paned like an hawke. 



Succinum raro occurrit"' pag 291 of yours. [Should 

 be p. 219] not so rarely on the coast of norfolk. tis 

 usually found in small peeces [butt crossed out] some- 

 times in peeces of a pound wayght. I haue one by mee 



1°' Amber, writes Mr. Clement Raid, in a paper contributed by him to the 

 " Trans. Norf. and Nor. Nat. Soc." (iii. , p. 601 ), "is found on the Norfolk 

 coast, usually mixed with the seaweed thrown up by the Spring gales," but 

 is very rarely found in place ; as much as three or four pounds are annually 

 gathered near Cromer. The quality, Mr. Reid says, is very good, but the 

 dark transparent lumps are most generally found. In a subsequent paper 

 {pp. cit. , iv. , p. 248) he enumerates seven species of insects which have been 

 found enclosed, and in a. third communication mentions an eighth. Mr. 

 A. S. Ford, as the result of an examination of a collection of East-coast 

 Amber made at Yarmouth (pp. cit., v., p. 92), adds one species of 

 Hymenoptera, three of Coleoptera, twoof Orttoptera, with some Araneida, 

 and remains of vegetable substances which had not been identified. 



The Jet found on the Norfolk coast differs considerably from the Whitby 

 Jet, and Mr. Reid, "Geology of the Country Round Cromer" (p. 133), 

 believes that in all probability it was originally derived from Lower 

 Tertiary beds under the North Sea, a, few miles from the present coast. 

 Mr. Savin estimates the average annual find of Jet near Cromer at from 

 ten to twenty pounds. 



The doctor does not display his usual acumen when he rejects the 

 "ancient" opinion as to the vegetable origin of Amber, see Pseudodoxia, 

 book ii., chap. iv. ; also letter from Earl of Yarmouth to T. B. (Wilkin 

 Edit, i., p. 411). 



