5S MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE KING EIDER AS A NORFOLK BIRD. 
Oyster-catcher. 
I caught a young Oyster-catcher in the grass, and saw two nests, 
one with two eggs and one with three, the former at least sixty 
feet above the sea, and almost on the edge of the cliff. None 
oi the nests I met with in the Scilly Islands were as high as this, 
and it certainly seems to be a very exceptional altitude. Oj^ster- 
eatchers eat the Limpets on the rocks, inserting their wedge-like 
bills when the shell is raised, which they thus easily detach from 
the stone, and clean out the contents almost completely. 
V. 
THE KING EIDER (SO MATERIA SPECTABILIS ) 
AS A NORFOLK BIRD. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S. 
Read 2. fill September, 1SS0. 
For many years this species had been included in the Norfolk lists, 
on the authority of Mr. Lilly Wigg, who stated that a female 
King Duck was killed on Breydon Broad on the 25th July, 1813. 
The occurrence is mentioned in a MS. book in the possession of 
Sir J. D. Hooker, entitled ‘ Memoranda touching the Natural 
History of Yarmouth and its environs,’ by Sir William Jackson 
Hooker, Thomas Penrice, Esq., Mr. Lilly Wigg, Rev. Joseph 
Burrell, Rev. R. B. Francis, and Dawson Turner, Esq., extending 
from 1807 to 1840. The entry is as follows: — “King Duck. 
A female shot on Breydon, July 25th, 1813,” and is initialled 
“ D. T.” Hunt, who was a Norfolk man, and generally referred 
to any rarity in his native county which came under his notice, 
does not mention this occurrence in his ‘British Ornithology’ 
