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To the above, as of purely local interest, I may add that the 
specimens upon which Mr. Tomes founded his opinion on this 
somewhat vexed question, were procured by myself, in Norfolk, 
and forwarded to him through Dr. Sclater, Secretary of the 
Zoological Society. 
This would seem to be the only known species of the genus 
Calamoxoliilus, as Mr. Dresser, in his recently published ‘ Birds of 
Europe,’ considers the Q. sihiricus of G. R. Gray’s ‘ Hand List ’ by 
no means established, and not known in Kamskatca. Mr. Young 
alludes to the term “ Reed Pheasant ” as applied to this species, 
which is a common name for it amongst the Broad-men of Norfolk, 
but simply, I believe, from the length and form of the tails of these 
birds suggesting a resemblance to the still longer appendages of the 
Pheasants of our woods. 
It has been said that this is not an indigenous species in this 
county, but imported, many years ago, from Holland ; still, though 
Sir Thomas Browne does not include it in his ‘ Account of Bhds 
found in Norfolk ’ (as published in Wilkin’s edition of his works), 
nevertheless, in a communication to John Ray,*' he mentions “a 
little bird of a ta'wney colour on the back, and a blew head and 
yellow bill, and black legs, shot in an osier yard,” to which, 
for distinction sake, he gave the name of Silerella. 
From such a description, written so far back as 1G74, it is not 
difficult to recognize the Bearded Tit of our Norfolk Broads at the 
present day. 
* This extract is from an extremely scarce little book by John Ray, 
entitled ‘Rays Collecti,’ containing “a collection of Englisli words not 
generally 'used, &c.,” in two catalogues, one for the northern and one for the 
southern counties. Also “ Catalogues of English Birds and Fishes, and an 
account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are 
gotten in England.” London, 1674. 
