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grilles,] thirteen German hawks, [goshawks,] and seven Iceland 
falcons.” — J. H. Gurnet. 
Record of tfie Rose-coloured Pastor in Norfolk in 1747. — 
Perhaps it may be worth notice that there is a record of the 
occurrence of the rose-coloured pastor in Norfolk as far back as 
1747 in Edwards' Natural History (vol. iv, p. 222, supplementary 
matter). It was shot at Rougham by Mr. Roger North, as it was 
feeding among blackbirds. 
Edwards records another killed at Norwood, from which he 
did not, as erroneously stated by Yarrell, take his picture. Which 
of them has the honour of being the first British specimen cannot 
now bo ascertained. — J. II. Gurney, Jun. 
On some Norfolk Birds in the late Mr. Henry Doubleday’s 
collection. — At the sale of the late Mr. Dpubleday’s collection 
on the 23rd of August, 1871, I purchased a few Yarmouth rarities, 
which I am desirous of seeing recorded, viz. : a Night heron, two 
Baillon’s crakes, and a little crake. Mr. Borrer, of Cowfold near 
Horsham, at the same time purchased a red-crested pochard, a 
male in change, marked in the catalogue “ Yarmouth, very rare." 
I have the following note in Mr. Doubleday’s handwriting about 
it: — “This I also had in the flesh from Mr. Stevens, [of Leaden- 
hall Market,] who assured me that it came from Yarmouth, and I 
have no doubt of the correctness of this statement, as I saw the 
package in which it came with other sea birds.” 
There were also a pair of nyroca ducks from Yarmouth, but I 
have no note of who is now the owner of them. 
This fine collection fetched £275. There was a large attendance 
of naturalists to see it dispersed at the Cock Hotel, Epping. — 
J. II. Gurnet, Jun. 
The first Britisii-killed Red-crested whistling Duck. — It 
is now r generally known that the credit of first introducing the 
red-crested whistling duck into the catalogue of English Birds 
is not due to Mr. Yarrell, but to a naturalist of Norfolk, the late 
Mr. Hunt, who gives in his British ■ Birds (vol. ii, p. 333), two 
instances, the first being a drake in “ Bullock’s London Museum,’’ 
which had been killed in Norfolk a few years previously. 
When this fine collection was broken up in 1819, as I find 
