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friend 13oeby’s S. negledum (whicli he found in Surrey, and 
figured and deseribed in the ‘Journal of Botany'). Tlie other day 
I sliowed it to him, and ho confirmed it, and says it is undoubtedly 
his plant. At pre.sont it is quite limiteil to England (in Great 
Britain) : not one of the many Scotch specimens received have been 
it — all ramosum. Mr. Fryer cannot find it in Cambridgeshire, 
although he has searched miles of ditches. It has been gathered 
in Surrey, Sussex, Salop, etc.” 
!Mr, Bennett kindly promises to send some specimens of this 
Sparganium for exhibition at a meeting of the Society. — 
II. D. Geldart. 
XVI. 
FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK. 
Fart XI. Birds. Section I.* 
By J. II. Gurney, .Jun., F.L.S., and Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 
(Members of the British Ornithologists’ Union). 
Read ^oth March, iS86. 
If the county of Norfolk possesses an avi-fauna rich beyond the 
avemge, it is not the less fortunate in having produced a long line 
of naturalists, who have left most valuable information for the 
benefit of their successors. The le Strange ‘ Household Book,’ 
commenced as early as the year 1519, although kept for quite 
a different purpose, embodies some useful and curious information 
with regard to the birds fouml in North Norfolk at that time, and 
used for food, as well as of their relative scarcity or abundance, as 
indicated liy the money value attached to each species. Some 
one hundred and fifty years later, we have Sir Thomas Browne’s 
•IVant of space renders it imperative that a portion of this list should be 
deferred until the next issue of the Society’s ‘ Transactions.’ 
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