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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
or from a more northerly locality. We have, so far as we are able, 
endeavoured to distinguish between these different forms of migra- 
tion in the remarks on each species. 
In no part of England is the great autumnal movement more 
observable than on the east coast, from the Tees to the Thames. 
In Norfolk this vast army is heralded by arrivals in September 
of Eedstarts, Wheatears, Pied Plycatchers, Whitethroats, Nightjars, 
Little Stints, Pigmy Curlews, etc. ; hut when October sets in, the 
greatest influx takes place. A great movement of birds then presents 
itself, on the coast especially. Buzzards, and other birds of prey, 
soar aloft in circles, while the eye which knows her flight will 
catch the distant Peregrine Falcon, or more frequently, the Kestrel 
or Merlin. Short-eared Owls are discovered in flocks of fifteen 
or twenty; and the gamekeeper, going his morning rounds, finds 
that long before ho was up there had been an early arrival of Jays 
and Sparrow Hawks. Straggling parties of Grey Crows, Jackdaws, 
and Eooks, dot the air for days together, while Snow Buntings, 
and flocks of Chaffinches, appear in the fields nearest to the 
sea. Bramhlings, Twites, Siskins, Shorelarks, and Mealy Bedpolls 
are heard of at our hirdcatchers’. Snipes and Plovers are seen 
on the marshes. Skylarks come over in clouds, and, mingled 
with them, are regiments of Starlings, flying westward with 
steady purpose. The Woodcock, tired with the long flight from 
Norway, halts to rest after his nocturnal journey in the first 
plantation he reaches, or drops among the sand-hills. The 
Fieldfare and Eedwing appear, and the number of Song Thrushes 
and Blackbirds in turnip-fields near the coast is often perfectly 
amazing. But when November draws to a close, the rush of land- 
birds is over, though a few small flocks of Grey Crows, Woodcocks, 
and Larks come dropping in for many weeks afterwards. 
As might be expected, many rarities have been mot with 
on the Norfolk coast, and the following rare stragglers were 
all first obtained in this county Black-bellied Dipper, Savi’s 
AVarbler, Wall Creeper, Shorelark, Poller, Bee-eater, Ped-footed 
Falcon, Pallas’s Sandgrouse, Pectoral Sandpiper, Broad-billed 
Sandpiper, (?) Eastern Golden Plover, White-winged Tern, Casj)ian 
Tern, Capped Petrel, Dusky Petrel, Ped-crested Pochard, Bufllc- 
headed Duck, Steller’s Duck. 
It remains for us to explain why, during tho life time of 
