GO MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON THE KING EIDER AS A NORFOLK BIRD. 
notes on the birds observed by him at Hunstanton, and mentioned 
a young male Eider which he saw in a case at a fish-shop in that 
town, and which he said appeared to him to differ from other 
Eiders which he had seen, and especially from a young male 
Common Eider in his own collection, but as he had no books of 
reference with him he made a mental note of it as “a rather dark 
and small Eider,” and suggested that it might possibly be an 
example of the King Eider. I had an opportunity of examining 
this bird in the last week of July, — unfortunately after my article 
on the Eider for the ‘ Birds of Norfolk ’ had been printed, — and 
was delighted to find it a young male Somateria spedabilis. I lost 
no time in purchasing the specimen, which I now have the 
pleasure to exhibit, and have presented to the Norwich Museum, 
where I trust it will long remain en evidence. The bird was shot 
off Hunstanton about the middle of January, 1S88, and -was 
stuffed by Mr. Clark, of Snettisham, for Mr. Osborne, of whom 
I purchased it. It was seen alive on several occasions by .the 
Hunstanton gunners, among others by Mr. Tuck’s correspondent, 
Mr. B. Bowler (see ‘Zoologist,’ 1888, p. 148). There can therefore 
be no question as to its identity, and it gives me great pleasure to 
restore the species to a place in the Norfolk list on such satisfactory 
evidence. 
