84 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Caspian Tern (old and young). 



Roseate Tern (from Lord Lilford). 



Red-breasted Snipe (Horsey Broad). 



Black Stork (bought at Rising's sale for eleven guineas). 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper (the second British example). 



White's Thrush (Hickling). 



Roller (caught at sea). 



Alpine Swift (Buckenham). 



Richard's Pipit (from Lord Lilford). 



Little Bustard (two specimens). 



Greenland Falcon (Cromer). 



Red-footed Falcon (two). 



Green-backed Porphyrio. 



Fine case of Norfolk Ruffs. 



Bee Eater. 



Several white and piebald varieties on the shelves may be 

 noticed of such birds as the Woodcock, Red-backed Shrike, 

 Snipe, Nightjar, Buzzard, Kestrel, Jay, Brambling, and Pheasant; 

 but perhaps the most striking varieties are a slate-coloured 

 Moorhen, with feathers of hair-like texture, and a beautifully 

 pied Long-eared Owl, shot at Burgh, and presented by Mr. C. 

 J. Lucas — albinism in Owls being of very rare occurrence. 



In the British Room, though not " British-killed," is a family 

 group of Waxwings, male, female, and nestling, with the nest, 

 all collected by Mr. John Wolley in Finnish Lapland in 1856, 

 when he discovered for the first time the long-sought nesting- 

 place of this beautiful wanderer. This famous oologist was [in 

 the habit of sending yearly most of the birds obtained by himself 

 or his agents in Lapland to the Museum at Norwich, where 

 they will ever be objects of special interest to those who are 

 possessors of eggs collected by him, as being in some cases the 

 very birds which laid them. The Oological Collection (excepting 

 the Raptorial Eggs) and the rest of the Nests are in the first and 

 second corridors, and, inter alia y comprise locally taken and neatly 

 preserved nests of the Ruff (J. A. Cole), Gadwall (Col. Butler), 

 Hawfinch, Long-tailed Tit, &c, and a nest of the Crossbill taken 

 by John Hancock in Ross-shire. 



The Diurnal Birds of Prey. — The collection of Raptorial 

 Birds is, as Mr. Southwell truly observes, a lasting memorial of 

 the energy and acquaintance with this branch of Ornithology pos* 



