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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON RARE BIRDS IN NORFOLK. 
.Red-breasted Fly-catcher (Muscicapa parva). On the 13th 
September, 1890, Mr. F. M. Ogilvie was shooting in the “Scrub” 
on the beach at Cley-next-the-Sea, a locality which has produced 
so many rare autumn migrants, when he was so fortunate as to 
procure a female of this pretty little Fly-catcher, a species new to 
the Norfolk fauna (P.Z.S., 1890, p. 61 G). I regret that in the 
‘Birds of Norfolk’ I referred to this bird as an immature female, 
it was so reported to me, and on the only brief opportunity I had 
ot seeing the bird I did not examine it with a view to determining 
its age. Mr. Ogilvie (see page 199) tells me it is certainly in 
mature plumage ; and I take this opportunity of correcting my 
former statement, the only excuse for which is, that I had to stop 
the press to enable me to include it at the very last moment ; but 
I ought not to have committed myself to the statement without 
verification. 
Lapland Bunting ( Calcar ins lapponicus). On January 12th 
the ‘Eastern Daily Press’ announced the capture of a Lapland 
Bunting at Lowestoft, and on the 19th another was taken at 
Yarmouth, which Mr. Gurney saw at Mr. Lowne’s shop. Both of 
them were caught by birdcatchers. 
Bustard ( Otis tarda). A small migratory flock of these birds 
appear to have visited England this winter, of which one was 
killed in Wales, one in Essex, one in Hampshire, one in Wilt- 
shire, one in Sussex, one in Norfolk, and another in Sulfolk. Of 
the latter, which was procured in Mildenhall Fen, some four 
miles from the Norfolk boundary, the Rev. Julian Tuck has given 
us full particulars which will be found at p. 209. The Norfolk 
bird was found on the 19th of January, 1891, dead, in a road 
leading from Stiffkey Windmill to the salt marshes, and about a 
mile and a half from the sea. It had been previously shot at, and 
evidently died of its wounds. It was taken to Mr. Bell, and by 
him forwarded to Mr. T. J. Mann, of Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, 
who unfortunately found it in too advanced a state for preservation, 
and only the wings and sternum were saved. It proved to be a 
female, weighing eight and a half pounds, in very fair plumage, 
and measured fifty-nine inches from the carpal point to the end of 
the longest quill-feather. It is worthy of note, that so far as I 
have been able to learn, all the examples met with in the past 
winter — seven in number — have been females. 
