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LIST OF NORFOLK BIRDS. 
174. Jack Snipe {Gallinago gallinuld). 
An autumn anti winter visitant. We have not the least reason 
to believe this bii*d has bred in Norfolk, although it has stayed 
with us as late as the month of July, and has been shot or seen in 
perhaps every month of tlie year. 
1 < 5. Eed-breasted Snipe (^Macrorha?nphus griseus). 
This rare straggler from America has occurred three times, viz., 
in October, 183G, in October, 1841,* and in October, 1845. 
The last-named specimen j>assed from the collection of the late 
Mr. Eising, by whom it was killed, to the Norwich Museum. 
176. Broad-billed Sandpiper [Limiccla platyrhyncha). 
Has been shot on Breydon Broad three times, viz., on May 25th, 
1836, on May 25th, 1856, and on April 23rd, 1858 (‘Zoologist,’ 
p. 6096). 
177. Pectoral Sandpiper {Tringa maculata). 
The first British specimen was killed on Breydon Broad in 
October, 1830, and a figure is given of it in Babington’s ‘Birds 
of Suffolk’ (plate iv.). Since that time three more have occurred, 
of which the last was caught in the Wash, in the nets which are 
there in use for catching Plover, Dunlin, Curlew, etc., on January 
9th, 1868 (‘Zoologist,’ 1868, p. 1128); a very singular time of 
year for such a bird. — G. 
178. Dunlin {Tringa alpina). 
This is the most abundant of all our migratory Waders, 
occurring in spring and autumn on our mud-flats, and receiving 
large additions to its numbers in the winter months. Specimens 
may bo met with in almost every month of the year, but it does 
not breed with us, though late spring birds and early autumn 
arrivals are frequently in full plumage. — S. 
* There having been some misapprehension about the 1841 lled-breasted 
Snipe, it may here be stated that it never formed part of Stephen Miller’s 
collection ; my father heard of its occurrence, and requested a birdstnffer 
named .Tohnson to go to Yarmouth and buy it for him, which he did, and 
brought it back in the flesh, and it is now .stuffed and in good preservation at 
Northrepps Hall. Another was sold at Stephen Miller’s sale (lot 3G), but 
there is no proof that it was British-killed. — G. 
