ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 99 



March. — A white Eook at Horning (Bird). 



April. — On the 28th a singular Bed start,! with a pale back 

 and sandy-coloured wings, appeared near my house, and within 

 a mile of where I met a similar variety — possibly the same bird 

 —in 1902. 



June. — A white Starling at Bacton (Bird). 



July. — A cream-coloured Starling at Kilverstone (W. G. 

 Clarke) ; chestnut Blackbird at Thetford (Clarke). 



August. — During this month (d. u.) an isabelline or cream- 

 coloured Cormorant was seen by Mr. Cresswell perched on a 

 beacon at the mouth of the Wash, with three or four others of 

 the ordinary type. A white Eedpoll with a yellowish cap in a 

 cage at Yarmouth (Patterson), but when or where captured is 

 not known ; possibly the same bird that was exhibited at Norwich 

 Bird Show in 1893. 



September. — A beautifully pied Chaffinch, taken alive at Hor- 

 stead (Sir E. Birkbeck), and a white Swallow seen at Burgh. On 

 the 21st a variety of the Partridge! was sent to the Museum 

 from Cantley, remarkable for the mealy tint of its back and chest, 

 and its almost black lores and very dark ear-coverts. It was 

 only a young female ; if it had been adult these colours would 

 have been more pronounced, but it would not have become as 

 melanic as the variety shot in November, 1893. On the 2nd, 

 I am informed by Mr. Arnold, a very dark Stonechat, amounting 

 to partial melanism, but showing white on the wing and neck, 

 was shot, and it was subsequently submitted to Mr. Howard 

 Saunders. 



October. — A fawn Linnet at Cley (C. Gurney) ; a slate-coloured 

 Robin near Bury; a spotted Starling exhibited in Norwich. 



November. — On the 5th a very good Perdix montana,\ the 

 Spangled Partridge, was shot near Dereham (Gunn). This 

 variety must not be confused with the French Perdrix roquette. 

 A Woodcock with four white primaries in one wing,! and one and 

 some coverts in the other, shot at Foulsham (Southwell). 



December. — About the 24th a Woodcock with the anterior half 

 of one wingf white was shot at Horsford, perhaps from the same 

 nest as the other. Mr. Cole had a cream-coloured Redwing from 

 Forncett on the 31st, and Mr. Lowne a pied Sky-Lark about the 



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