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specimen; the Pectoral Sandpiper, another American 
species first obtained on Breydon; and an even rarer 
bird, the Siberian, or Sharp-tailed Pectoral Sandpiper, 
which has only twice been procured in Britain, and 
both times on Breydon. The Museum specimen of 
this bird has only recently been recognised, although 
it was killed in September, 1848. The splendid 
series of Ruffs, all local specimens in breeding plum- 
age has already been mentioned, but others will be 
observed in thiscase. Two more New-world stragglers 
must be pointed out; the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, the 
Museum specimen of which was killed at or near 
Sheringham on 2gth July, 1832, and the Brown Snipe 
(Macrorhamphus griseus), killed at Horsey, on oth 
October, 1845. The collection also contains some 
beautiful breeding examples of the Black-tailed God- 
wit, a bird which early in the present century nested 
in several localities in Norfolk. 
Case VII. 
is appropriated to Aquatic Birds, and commences with 
perhaps the most graceful of all these charming birds, 
the Terns and Gulls. The lovely Common and 
Lesser Terns are the only species now left to us as 
summer residents, and these from persistent egging, 
and the heartless fashion of adorning (?) ladies’ hats 
with their distorted bodies, are in great danger of 
extermination. The Arctic Tern is only a passing 
migrant, and the Roseate Tern, a great rarity in this 
county—although it formerly bred in some numbers on 
the Farne Islands—is represented in the collection by 
only one local specimen, which was killed at Hun- 
stanton on 12th July, 1880, and generously presented 
by Lord Lilford. The Caspian and Sandwich Terns, 
of which fine species examples will be noticed, are 
