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friend and fellow-citizen, Mr. Thomas Southwell, of Norwich, to 

 complete the volume, and this, as it seems to us, he has 

 accomplished in the most satisfactory manner. We can well 

 believe that it entailed no slight labour to decipher all the 

 author's fragmentary notes in a handwriting never very legible, 

 and to collate, arrange, and supplement these so as to bring all up 

 to date must have involved an expenditure of time and energy 

 which few editors, even if they felt competent enough, would 

 have been willing to undertake. The value of Mr. Stevenson's 

 two former volumes was too well known and appreciated not to 

 make it a matter of general regret that he did not live to com- 

 plete the third, and if the universal gratitude of ornithologists 

 can compensate Mr. Southwell for all his labour in bringing this 

 important work to a conclusion, we feel sure that it will be 

 accorded by acclamation. 



To the majority of readers, probably, the present volume will 

 be of greater interest than either of the two which preceded it, 

 for it appeals to sportsmen quite as much as to naturalists, and 

 deals with all the wealth of wildfowl and seafowl for which the 

 county of Norfolk is so justly celebrated. 



Geese, Swans, Ducks, Grebes, Divers, Terns, and Gulls are 

 all dealt with in succession, and many interesting details are 

 given respecting the breeding haunts of many of the wildfowl, 

 and the occasional visits of some of the rarer species. In 

 particular we would call attention to the account given (p. 233) 

 of the Great Crested Grebe, a bird eminently characteristic of 

 the Norfolk Broads, and of the famous "gullery" at Scoulton 

 Mere (p. 327). It will probably be news to many readers that 

 there was formerly another "gullery" on the borders of the 

 county at Brandon, on a small mere perhaps half-a-mile from 

 the Brandon and Mildenhall Boad, and close to Wangford. In a 

 note on p. 323, Prof. Newton communicates the fact that in 1853 

 he was informed by the warrener that the Gulls (Lams ridi- 

 bundus) had left off breeding there several years before, in 

 consequence (as the tenant of the warren asserted) of the owner 

 " taking their eggs too close." Some interesting particulars are 

 given (p. 323) of the former nesting of this species at Stanford, 

 on Lord Walsingham's estate, where, some time after they had 

 ceased to breed there regularly, they were one year induced to 

 return by placing some Gulls' eggs (which had been brought from 



