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the Red Sandpiper, Tringa Icelandica, or what I have always 
considered to he the Red Sandpiper, if 1 am wrong as to this bird 
have the goodness to tell me, and also what Tringa it is. 1 have 
now scraped together some of the provincial names of the water fowl 
of this part of the world. Golden eyes are frequently and almost al- 
ways called Rattle wings here. Wigeon always Smee; Shieldrakes, 
I think in parts of Norfolk, Shellfowl, but here always Barganders ; 
Pochards Dunbircls or Pokers-, Tufted Bucks are always called 
Goldeneyes here, though in some parts of Norfolk they are called 
Arps ; Teal in parts of Norfolk too are called Cricks, and Garganey 
Summer Cricks. Pintail ducks are called Sea pheasants, Shovclers 
always Becks. The common Water Rails are called Rails, but the 
Spotted Water-Rails are called Quails. The Goosander here is often 
called Merganser; but all the birds of the genus Mergus, generally 
come under the sweeping clause of Sawyers — from their serrated 
bills. The Avoset is called a Shoe-awl, I suppose from the bill re- 
sembling a Shoe-maker’s awl. The following ducks I know breed 
with us, Buck and Mallard, Teal, Garganey, Shieldrakes, and 
Shovellers. By the bye the Avoset breeds at a place called Horsey, 
nine miles on the coast from hence, if you look on the map you will 
see Winterton : Horsey joins it. I mention this circumstance, as 
Horsey is a most extraordinary place for all sorts of wild birds 
(though nothing so good as it was ten years ago) and should you come 
into this part of Norfolk, I will show you this place, the whole 
of this parish belongs to a Mr. Robert Rising :* it is a most desolate 
* This gentleman, who died in 1841, aged 73, was owner of most of 
the soil in the parish of Horsey, next the sea, and lord of the manor, 
which he purchased of Sir G. B. Brograve, Bart., and others, about the close 
of the last century. By drainage, planting, raising the sea banks, and the 
formation of roadways, he did much in his lifetime to alter the condition of 
things referred to by Mr. Girdlestone, and a still further outlay of capital in 
a like enterprising spirit, by his son, Mr. Robert Rising, who resides at the 
Hall, has rendered many parts of the estate exceedingly fertile, though the 
mere (about 130 acres of water), and the surrounding reed beds and marshes, 
still retain much of their original character. The present proprietor, a keen 
sportsman in his earlier days, with a great taste for ornithology, possesses a 
fine collection of birds, chiefly procured at Horsey and in its immediate 
neighbourhood, including, amongst many rarities, the adult male Buffel- 
headed duck ( Clangula albeola), shot at Yarmouth, about the year 
1830. This bird formerly in Mr. Steven Miller’s collection at Yarmouth, 
is the only authentic Norfolk specimen, and was figured by Yarrell. 
