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Grebe in the collection, all very elegant birds, one 
only of which, the Little Grebe, is found in any num- 
bers in Norfolk. 
The Auks are Oceanic birds, more or less common 
on our shores, particularly the Razor-bill; but its 
cousin, the Great Auk, before referred to, is now 
extinct. The Guillemot is another well-known inhabi- 
tant of our waters; the Black Guillemot is much 
rarer, but it breeds on the Irish coast and some of the 
Scotch Islands. The Little Auk, a quaint little bird, 
circumpolar in its habitat, occasionally visits our 
shores in stormy weather, even in considerable num- 
bers, and on such occasions is often driven far 
inland; one of our specimens was taken on the 
Gentleman’s Walk, another will be observed to have 
the black chin and throat of summer, a state of 
plumage very rare so far south; this example was 
killed at Wells, in May, 1857. Only one more bird 
remains for us to mention, and that a very remarkable 
one known as the Puffin. It is a dapper little fellow, 
breeding in suitable localities all round the coast of 
Great Britain, depositing a single egg in holes in the 
ground, and for the most part availing itself of rabbits’ 
burrows. ‘The bill in summer is enormous and gaudily 
coloured; it has the curious habit of shedding some 
portion of it, as well as some other horny ornamental 
appendages, after the close of the breeding season. 
The corridor, opening out of the British Bird Room, 
through which we pass into the next block, contains 
on the left side four caszs devoted to the collection of 
British Birds’ Eggs, 
and three small wall cases, in which are a number 
of nests, also of British Birds. 
Passing for the present the line of wall cases on the 
