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18. Meles taxus (Schreb.). Badger. 
The only instances of the occurrence of the Badger in Norfolk 
M'hich have come to my knowledge since my list was published 
are, one killed at Holkham, in November, 1875, and a female 
trapped on Kelling Heath, in March, 1877 ; probably both 
stragglers. 
Fain. Phocid.e. 
19. Phoca vitultna (Linn.). The Common Seal. 
The late Mr. Cresswell of Lynn — who during many years’ 
shooting and fishing in the great estuary of the Wash lying 
between the counties of Norfolk and Lincolnshire enjoyed excep- 
tional opportunities of observing these animals — has repeatedly 
told me that the extensive and solitary tracts of sand-bank, left 
bare by every retiring tide, are frequented by large numbers 
of Seals ; and Mr. Cordeaux, who has also had very favourable 
opportunities for observation in. the same locality, writes me that 
“ there is a considerable colony of Seals in these waters, far more 
than is generally supposed, and many young are undoubtedly born 
in the course of each season.” On the actual sea-coast they are 
seldom seen ; it is to the lonely sand-banks, far out in the 
Wash, which are rarely approached by man, that they resort. The 
Seal occasionally ascends fresh-water streams, but it seldom 
penetrates to such a distance as recorded by Mr. Gurney in the 
Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. iii. p. 423, where 
he mentions one having been killed in the river Ouse on the 
18th November, 1881, at Bluntisham, about forty miles in a direct 
line from the sea (many more following the course of the river), and 
another having been seen at Earith Bridge, a short distance below 
Bluntisham, on the 3rd of the following December. A few years 
ago an old lighterman at Earith caught a Seal alive near the 
same place, which became so tame that it would answer to his call, 
and come out of the river to be fed. After some months it met 
with the usual fate of pets. 
20. Phoca hispida (Schreb.). Binged or Marbled Seal. 
Killed on the Norfolk coast in 1846. 
21. * Haliohcerus GRYPHU3 (Fab.). Grey Seal. 
An old female and young one, killed on a sand-bank in the 
