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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
3. Osprey {Fandion haliceeius). 
of rare occurrence as a siiring and autumn migrant. 
4. Greenland Falcon* {Falco ca/idicatis). 
The Norwich Museum contains a very fine adult Greenland 
Falcon, shot near Cromer in February, 1848. There is an earlier 
Norfolk specimen in the Saffron AValden Lluseum, which was 
killed near Lynn. 
5. Peregrine Falcon {FaFo d'eregrinus). 
Not by any means uncommon as a passage-hawk in this county. 
Adults have occurred much more frequently than is the case with 
any other bird of prey which does not breed with us. 
G. Hobby [Falco siibbuteo). 
A summer visitant, not infrequently breeding. It has occurred 
once as early as February (auct. W. E. Fisher), and four times in 
March {auct. II. Stevenson, F. Norgate, G. E. Twinn).f — G. 
7. Eed-footed Falcon {Fa/co vespertinus). 
Not known as a British bird until 1830, Avhen no less than five 
were killed in Norfolk. A sixth occurred in 1843, and a seventli 
in 18G8. 
8. Merlin (^Falco cesa/on). 
A rather common autumn visitant, generally in immature 
plumage : in adult plumage it is extremely rare. j\Ir. Stevenson 
records a Merlin at Cromer as late in the spring as IMay 25th 
(‘Zoologist,’ 18G7, p. 872). 
* Gykfalcon {Falco gyrfaJco). A young bird, killed on Thetford warren 
in the spring of 1883, is in the possession of l)r. Churchill Babingtpn. It 
has been examined by Professor Newton, who thinks it is more like this 
species than the closel}- allied Iceland Falcon, but in immature plumage 
they are almost indistinguishable. H.H. The Maharajah Duleep Singh some 
years ago kept Gyrfalcons for hawking at Elveden near Thetford, but the 
head-keeper, Mr. iMayes, informs us that the bird was not lost from there. 
Unfortunately the warren is just beyond the Norfolk boundary. 
fin Sterland and "Whitaker’s ‘Birds of Nottinghamshire,’ four Hobbies 
are entered as having been killed in mid-winter and two in March (p. 67). 
In Suffolk one has occurred in December and one in January (Babington, 
‘Birds of Suffolk,’ p. 27). It has also been observed in Cumberland in 
November (Maepherson, ‘Birds of Cumberland,’ p. 79). — G. 
