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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
‘Account of Birds found in Norfolk,’ written about the year 1663, 
Avhicli for accuracy and shrewdness of observation has never been 
surpassed.* Another long period then intervenes, and in 1826 
appeared Sheppard and Whitear’s ‘ Catalogue of Norfolk and Suffolk 
Birds,’ to be followed in 1829 by ‘ A list of Birds found in Norfolk,’ 
by John Hunt, the author of an illustrated ‘British Ornithology,’ 
never completed ; a ‘ Sketch of the natural History of Yarmouth,’ 
by C. J. and James Paget, in 1831; ‘Observations on the Pauna 
of Norfolk,’ by the Ecv. Bichard Lubbock, in 1845 (a second 
edition in 1879) ; ‘An account of the Birds found in Norfolk,’ by 
J. H. Gurney and W. B. Fisher, published in the ‘ Zoologist ’ in 
1846 ; and last, but by far the most important contribution to 
Norfolk Ornithology, because embodying all that preceded it, 
combined with an immense amount of personal observation, the 
‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ by IMr. Stevenson, consisting of a series of 
monographs of the Norfolk birds, as instructive as they are 
charmingly Avritten.f The first volume appeared in 1866, the 
second in 1870, concluding with the Bed-necked Phalarope ; and 
the third, and perhaps the most important jjortion, so far as the 
ornithology of this county is concerned, to the regret of all Avho 
have studied the two preceding volumes, is, from causes over 
Avhich the author has had no control, still in abeyance. ' In 
addition to those already named, a host of ornithologists have 
lived in, or have been connected with Norfolk, amongst whom 
may bo named Bobort Marsham of Stratton, Bishop Stanley, 
Lilly Wigg, Stephen Miller, Girdlestone, Bobert Hamond, 
Bobert and John Scales, Salmon, Thomas L)i.x;, Edward Lombe, 
Anna Gurney, Clough Newcome, and Bobert Bising; and, 
equally well known in other departments of natural science, 
Bobert Arderon, the Hookers, John Bindley, J. E. Smith, Kirby. 
Sedgwick, Dawson Turner, Brightwell, and the Woodwards.! 
* For a comparison of the avi-fauna of the County at various periods, see 
a paper on “The Ornithological ArcliDcology of Norfolk” (Trans. Norfolk 
and Norwich Nat, Soc. vol. i. (1870) p. It). 
t In addition to those enumerated, lists of the Birds of Norfolk appeared 
in White’s ‘Directory of Norfolk’ in 18G4 and 1883, by Mr. Stevenson, and 
in Mason’s ‘History of Norfolk’ in 188t, by Mr. J. II. Gurney, Jun. 
I Biographical notices of many Norfolk Naturalists will bo found in the 
volumes of the ‘ Transactions ’ of this Society. 
