1380 Birds. 



Tufted Duck, Fuligula cristata. This species is more common 

 than the last, but occurs at similar seasons. 



Long-tailed Duck, Fuligula glacialis. The immature birds are not 

 uncommon towards the end of autumn and in the winter, and adult 

 specimens occasionally occur in severe weather. 



Harlequin Duck, Fuligula histrionica. Mentioned by the Messrs. 

 Paget to have been bought in Yarmouth market by Mr. Wigg. An 

 adult male, said to have been killed near Yarmouth is in the 

 Norwich Museum. 



Golden Eye, Fuligula clangula. The immature birds are quite 

 common in winter, but adult specimens only occur in severe weather. 

 This species is called at Yarmouth " rattle-wings," the tufted duck 

 being there known as the golden eye. 



BufTel-headed Duck, Fuligula albeola. An adult male bird, killed 

 near Yarmouth is in the possession of Mr. Miller. It is said by Mr. 

 Lubbock, on the authority of the late Mr. Girdlestone, (1828) that 

 " this species is known to the Yarmouth gunners as the i little rattle- 

 wing ' ; that it is the hardiest species of fowl known on the coast, re- 

 maining at sea when all others are driven southward by stress 

 of weather." 



Smew, Mergus albellus. The smew, in its immature plumage, is not 

 uncommon in winter and early spring ; but the adult bird is more 

 rare. 



Hooded Merganser, Mergus cucullalus. A specimen was killed at 

 Yarmouth in the winter of 1829. 



Red-breasted Merganser, Mergus serrator. Occurs in winter, 

 generally in severe weather ; but the immature specimens are much 

 more common than the adult. 



Goosander, Mergus merganser. The immature bird is of frequent 

 occurrence in winter,- being only met with in the adult state in very 

 severe weather. 



Great Crested Grebe, Podiceps cristatus. Common, breeding on 

 most of the broads which it frequents throughout the year, unless 

 those waters become frozen ; when it leaves them and retires to the 

 coast and running streams. 



Red-necked Grebe, Podiceps rubricollis. A regular and common 

 visitant in early spring and late in the autumn ; at the former season 

 it occasionally happens that a pair of these birds remain, and nest in 

 the county. 



Sclavonian Grebe, Podiceps cornutus. This is also a regular and 

 common visitant to Norfolk, at the same seasons as the preceding 



