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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
* White Wagtail ( Motacilla alba). 
Of this species we could not speak with certainty in our previous 
list, but by the occurrence of two male examples at Great Yarmouth, 
on the 24th April, 1888, and another on the 1st May, the matter 
is placed beyond a doubt. 
Lapland Bunting (Plectrophanes lapponicus). 
The months of October and November, 1892, were memorable 
for an unprecedented visit of Lapland Buntings, some account of 
which has already been given in our ‘Transactions.’ The incursion 
of these hardy northerners was first noticed on October the 1 3th, 
by that vigilant ornithologist, Dr. Power, at Cley, but the greater 
number were seen on the Caistor Denes, near Yarmouth. Here 
they met with such an inhospitable reception at the hands of the 
bird-catchers and bird-dealers, that fifty-six were netted or shot. 
The autumn of 1893 brought some more to the same places, and 
the first was again noticed by Dr. Power on September 14th, but 
happily not many were taken. 
Cirl Bunting ( Emberizu cirlus). 
Two males, now in Mr. Connop’s collection, were netted on 
Breydon marshes, on the 29th January, 1888, during severe frost. 
Ortolan Bunting ( Emberim hortularui). 
Mr. Gurney shot an Ortolan Bunting at Cley, on 5th September, 
1889, it is a young bird, resembling Dresser’s figure (‘Birds of 
Europe,’ vol. iv. pi. 215), but rather more streaked ; and on the 15th 
September, 1892, a young male in similar plumage was killed by 
Mr. Gunn at the same place. 
Serin Finch ( Serinus hortulanus). 
In our former list (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. iv. 
p. 279) we spoke guardedly of this species as a Norfolk Bird, but the 
late Mr. Stevenson, in our ‘Transactions’ (vol. iv. p. 392), recorded 
the occurrence of a second specimen seen by him in the flesh, 
which was netted by a bird-catcher on the North Denes, Yarmouth, 
on the 5th February, 1887, thus establishing the claim of this 
diminutive Finch to be included in the list of visitors to this 
county. — S. 
