LIST OP NORFOLK BIRDS. 
2G1 
Tliese distinguished predecessors have been succeeded by many 
who, in the present day, earnestly strive to emulate those who have 
gone before. 
Many, of course, arc the changes which have come over the face 
of the county, particularly in the early part of the present 
century, when the high price produced by cereal crops* gave an 
impetus to the enclosure and cultivation of waste places, which 
totally altered the appearance of large tracts of country, never- 
theless, there are still remaining ami)le tracts of heath, wood, 
water, and marsh, which possess irresistible attractions for tho 
migrants which constitute so large a feature in tho bird fauna of 
this county. We cannot here enter into a more particular description 
of tho physical features presented by Norfolk, but must refer tho 
leader to the introductory chapter of tho ‘ IJirds of Norfolk,’ which 
gives a most admirable description of tho well definetl districts 
into Avhich tho author has there <livided tho county. Of tho 
appearance and former and present inhabitants of tho IJroad 
district, one of tho present writei's has endeavoured to convey 
some conception in the introduction to the second edition of 
Lubbock's ‘Fauna of Norfolk;’ and on the dccoy.s, which still 
form so intere.sting a feature, tho same writer has contributed a 
paper to tho ‘Transactions’ of this Society, which will bo found 
in vol. ii. p. 538. 
Iveforence in tho notes which follow is so frecpicntly made to the 
migratory habits of many birds which have until recently been 
regarded as residents, that wo may hero observe it has been found 
with, perhaps, the exception of House Sparrows, Green Wood- 
lieckers. Tree Creepers, and Nuthatches, — all the birds not 
dependent upon man arc more or less migratory ; and of those 
species which arc Siiid to receive an accession to their numbers 
in autumn, it ought perhaps more correctly to bo stated, that 
tho major part of them move south in autumn, their place 
being supplied by others of the same species from over the sea, 
* In the ten years ending 1820, wheat averaged 87s. per quarter, from 
which price it has been steadily declining to 51s. for the decade ending 1880, 
and in 1885 to 32s. lOd., with a still falling market. Should such unre- 
munerative prices continue, it seems probable that much of the poor land 
brought under the plough in those times of high prices will soon revert to 
sheepwalk and warren. 
