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“ The Rough-legged Buzzard visits the rabbit warrens in Norfolk every 
season, sometimes in considerable numbers. The Short-eared Owl has also 
been found to stay and breed on some of the heathy lands of the western 
part of Norfolk. A specimen of Leach’s Petrel was picked up this last 
winter near Coggeshall, in Essex, apparently in a state of exhaustion. On 
the 20th of May, 1827, a pair of the Pratincole (Pratincola glareola) were 
shot near Yarmouth. A few of them breed annually in the Fens near 
Yarmouth, in the same locality as the Ruffs, with which they are sometimes 
taken. The Red-legged Partridge is numerous here. On the heathy tract 
near the coast it far exceeds the common specie? in numbers. A Long-legged 
Plover was shot on the banks of Breydon Broad, near Yarmouth, in May* 
1823, in which neighbourhood, also, most of our rare water birds have been 
met with during the last eight or ten years. I should have much pleasure, if 
you wished it, in forwarding you some specimens of the Lesser Whitethroat, 
with its eggs and nest. — I am, &c., John D. Hoy.”] 
VI. 
Stoke Nayland Suffolk. 
March 19 tb 1831. 
Sir 
You must, I fear, consider my conduct rather strange, 
after offering to send you specimens of Birds & eggs, to have let so 
much time elapse without taking further notice of it ; but I was 
disappointed in not being able to procure the young Birds of Barus 
Biarmicus in nestling plumage during the last summer, & also the 
nest & eggs of Sylvia Locustella, my engagements having been 
such that I could not look after them myself. I have also been 
some time in Holland Sc the (Netherlands Sc have not long returned.* 
I have sent the nest Sc eggs*of Bearded Titmouse & Birds, with two 
nests of S. Sylviella Sc pair of Birds, the nests & eggs of Golden 
Oriole with a young male bird in first plumage & adult female. I 
* As appears by the memorandum book in Mr. Hoy’s handwriting, men- 
tioned in the introduction to these letters, he left England November 3rd) 
1 83d, and passed some weeks at Valkenswaard (where, it may be mentioned, 
he met Mr. Robert llamond), returning home, January 14th, 1331 . 
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