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this exhausted condition and bronglit it with him ashore, and soon parted 

 with it to another party who kept it alive a day or two ; but refusing food it 

 soon died, when it was sent up quite fresh to Norwich, and purchased by Mr. 

 J. Sayer, who still has it in his possession. In passing through my hands for 

 preservation, T had excellent opportunities of making a few personal obser- 

 vations on this rare visitor; and it affords me much pleasure in placing them 

 before the readers of the " Naturalist,^^ thinking at the same time that 

 my remarks although brief may not be uninteresting.— It measured 

 twelve and a half inches from tip of beak to tip of tail ; twenty-five 

 iDches across the extended wings to the extreme tip of each ; and seven 

 and three quarters inches from carpal joint to tip ; the second and 

 third primary quill feathers are the longest ; tail five inches ; bill, tip to gap, 

 one and three quarters inches ; the upper mandible is slightly hooked at the 

 tip, and of a blackish brown, assuming a paler hue towards the base. The 

 inside of its mouth is of a pale greenish yellow ; iris dark brown ; legs and 

 toes dull lemon yellow ; claws blackish brown. I opened its stomach which 

 emitted rather an unpleasant odour of coleoptera, it w^as however empty, 

 excepting a small portion of the leg of a beetle, apparently that of the dung 

 beetle Gctnipes stercoi^arius. 



Green Sandpiper. April 17th, a female at Barford. Mr. Canham. 



Oystercatgher. April 5th, one, a female. Blakeney. 



Bittern. March 6th, one example, Wroxham Broad. 



Whimbrel. May 5th, a male. 



Swans. March 15tli, a nice example of Cygnus minor, being the third 

 instance of its occurrence this season. March 25th, an immature specimen 

 of Cygnus musicus. 



Ducks, &c. March 8th ; Red breasted Merganser; a female, Ranworth 

 Broad. March 15th : two Golden Ej^^es, a male, a few Pochards, tufted, and a 

 common Scoter. April 20th : Four common Scoters ; three males, and 

 one female, from Hickling. April 26th. Two Shielducks, Rockland. 



Red Throated Diver. March 18th, a female, Wroxham Broad. 



COMORANT. March 21st, a female, Hoveton. 



Red Necked Grebe. March 25th, one male. This is the latest 

 example I have noticed this season. 



Terns. A splendid old male of the Black Tern, Sterna nigra, was 

 killed on our coast, on the 1 8th of April. In dissecting it, as I usually do 

 with various birds that pass through my hands, I found its gizzard fully 

 extended with various aquatic insects, some of which it had evidently 



