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135, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker {Dendrocopus minor). 
Resident witli us in small numbers, and apparently more 
frequent than formerly, A female was picked up on Yarmouth 
beach many years ago, which is indicative of its being, like the 
larger species, a migrant, 
13G, Wrvneuk {lynx torquilla). 
A summer migrant, rather common, yet local, A few are to be 
met on the coast-lino near Cromer, in the beginning of September, 
on tlieir way south, 
137, Kino {Cohtmba pixlumbus). 
Breeds throughout tlie county. The first hard weather drives 
them south, but in a few days their place is taken by a larger 
number from Scotland and the north. That some come over the 
sea is proved — if proof bo wanting — by one having been caught 
on tlie “Leman and Owcr” light- vessel, 
138, Stock Dove {Cofumba <enas). 
A common, but local bird, always nesting in holes of some kind. 
Occasionally hard weather brings largo migratory additions as late 
as January and February, Tlie bird is mentioned three times in 
the Household Accounts of the le Stranges, — G. 
139, Turtle Dove {Turtur communis). 
A summer migrant, very common, Lubbock says it was 
formerly but an occasional migrant, but already in his time it had 
become much commoner, 
140, P.\LLAs’s Saxd Grouse {Syrrhaptes paradoxus). 
The advent of these Tartar Sand Grouse, in 18G3, was one of 
the most extraordinary ornithological events on record, and 
attracted especial notice in Norfolk, where sixty were obtained ; 
but it did not appear to be generally known that, four years earlier 
(July, 1859), a single individual had been killed at Walpole 
St, Peter, Mr, Stevenson has given an admirable account of the 
irruption (‘Birds of Norfolk,’ vol, i, p. 376) with a plate by Wolf 
showing both sexes. None have occureed in England since, 
141, Black Grouse {Tetrao tetrix). 
Black Grouse- now only exist at Sandringham, where, although 
their numbers have been replenished by importations (the first of 
