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Immature female (Egypt) - 4| inches. 
Adult female (Ingham, Norfolk) - - - - - 4~ „ 
Supposed male (Ditchingham, Norfolk) 5§ „ 
This, with the colour of its plumage on the back and wings will’ 
I think, decide the sex of the latter specimen. 
The last example of this remarkable bird procured in Norfolk, 
was a fomalo shot on 1 Tickling Broad on the 7th May, 1842 ; but 
one, which escaped the Yarmouth gunners, was seen on the beach 
on the 19th of May, 18GG. 
Spotted Redshank. An adult male in full summer dress was 
killed at Yarmouth on the 14th of May, certainly the darkest 
plumaged bird of this species I have seen killed in Norfolk. A 
young male in its first year’s plumage was shot at Stalham on the 
lGth of August. 
Lesser Gray Shrike. This species, the Lanins minor of J. F. 
Gmelin, is included by Professor Newton in the 4th Ed. of Yarrell’s 
‘ Brit. Bds. ; ’ from the occurrence of two specimens, one obtained 
in the Scilly Isles in Nov. 1851, in the collection of Mr. Hearle 
Rodd, of Penzance; the other at Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, in 
the Spring of I860; the particulars of which were recorded by 
Mr. Murray A. Matthew the present owner of the specimen, and by 
myself, in the ‘Zoologist,’ (S.S.p.p. 2060 and 2139.) From 
the enquiries I made at that time, I felt no hesitation in expressing 
my belief in the genuineness of Mr. Matthew’s bird as having 
actually occurred in a wild state on the Norfolk coast ; and in 
confirmation of the same I have now the satisfaction of recording 
the occurrence of a second specimen at Yarmouth which was 
taken alive in a greenhouse, in the very same locality as the last, 
the North End Gardens, in the last week in May, 1875. On the 
2nd of June this bird (now in Mr. Gurney’s collection), was brought 
to me in the flesh, having died in a cage in which it was confined, and 
it had apparently been dead a day or two. It proved, on dissection, 
to be a male, and the stomach being perfectly empty the bird had 
probably refused all food after its capture. 
Hoopoe. In the first volume of the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ I gave 
a list of all the specimens of this most conspicuous bird that had 
