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though, singularly enough, nearly all the storm-driven specimens 
I have hitherto seen— picked up hxr inland — have been, more or 
less, in adult plumage. Granted, however, that these birds pass 
us on their southward migration annually, — and probably in 
numbers ecpial to the immense flights we have this season been 
made aware of by the merest accident, — if not driven “ inshore ” 
* Messrs. Sheppard and Wliitear, in their ‘Catalogue of Norfolk and 
Suffolk Birds,’ speak of an immature Arctic Gull (probably Kichardson’s) as 
killed on a rabbit warren, near Brandon, early in October, 1819. In the 
“ Lombe Collection” at the Norwich Museum, is an adult dark variety of 
Richardson’s Skua, and an immature Pomatorhine (cased by itself) and 
labeled as shot October 27th, 1834, at Little Melton, near Norwich ; more 
than twenty miles from the sea. On the 30th of October, 1848, an immature 
Pomatorhine, erroneously recorded (‘Zoologist,’ p. 2383) as a “ Richardson’s,” 
was shot on Elveden warren, near Thetford, which is now, as Professor 
Newton informs me, in the University Museum at Cambridge. 
An immature Pomatorhine Skua and an adult Richardson’s presented to 
the Norwich Museum in 1860 by the late Mr. E. C. Newcome, were killed 
some years back, the first at Lakenheath, the other at Ilockwold ; and in Mr. 
Newcome’s collection, still preserved at Ecltwcll Hall, are also an adult 
Pomatorhine killed at Ilockwold, and an immature Buffon’s Skua shot by his 
brother, blr. W. C. New'coiue, oitt of a turnip field at Methwold in September, 
1854. In the same part of the county, also, on the 12th of October, 1S67> 
an adult Buftbn’s Skua w'as shot by Mr. Dugmore’s gamekeeper on land 
formerly warren. Again, in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1848 (p. 2149), Mr. Alfred 
Newton records an immature specimen of Buftbn’s Skua as found dead at 
llockham in September of the previous year. The last eight specimens 
were all procured on the extreme south and south-western boundary of the 
county, within the “ Feu ” and “ Breck ” districts, from eighteen to thirty 
miles from the nearest point of the coast — the shores of the Wash, at Lynn. 
In September or October, 1848, a Button’s Skua was sliot near St. Neot’s, in 
Huntingdonshire (‘Zoologist,’ pp. 2383 and 2392), wliich had doubtless 
found its way up tlie river from the Wash. It is now in the collection of 
the late Mr. G. H. Rowley, of Brighton. 
In the ‘Zoologist’ for 1861 (p. 7818) is also a note by Mr. W. Winter, of 
Aldeby, that a fine Richardson’s Skua was shot at Horning Fen early in 
November during a heavy snowstorm. This locality, on the eastern side of 
the county and in the “ Broad” district, is about seven miles from the .sea at 
Yarmouth. Even more strange, however, botli as to date and locality, was 
tlie occurrence on the 13th of May, 1871, of an adult Ricliard.son’s Skua at 
Brook Wood, about seven miles south of Norwich and some sixteen from the 
coast ; and on tlie 14th of October, in the same year, a young Ricliardson’s 
Skua was shot at Burlingham, about nine miles from Norwich, on the 
Yarmouth side. 
