FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
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* Two Barred Crossbill ( Loxia bifasnata). 
On the 1st September, 18S9, a male example of this bird was 
shot at Burgh, near Great Yarmouth, although strictly speaking the 
spot on which it occurred was within the geographical boundary of 
Suffolk, I think it may fairly be claimed for this county, as it was 
in a tract of country known as Lothingland, running up into 
Norfolk, and several miles north of the southern boundary of the 
latter county ; a flight of a few yards, too, would have carried it 
into undoubted Norfolk ground. This species has previously been 
recorded for Suffolk. Others were obtained about the same time 
in Yorkshire, and again later in the year both in Yorkshire and at 
Croydon. — S. 
Nutcracker ( Nucifraya caryocatactes). 
A female of this species, now in Mr. Connop’s collection, was 
killed at Hanworth about the 8th November, 1888. One was shot 
in Lincolnshire about two days previously, viz., on November 6th. 
Hoopoe ( Upupa epops). 
A male Hoopoe was picked up dead at Walcot, on the 18th 
April, 1892, and taken to the Lev. Maurice Bird, of Brunstead. 
It was apparently uninjured, and had doubtless fallen a victim to 
the exceedingly cold and rough weather which had prevailed 
during the previous week. Mr. Bird also mentions that a single 
Hoopoe was seen by the llev. F. S. Thew, at Swafield, on the 7th 
and again on the 9th of May, 1890; he had previously seen one 
in the same place in 1888. 
Holler ( Coracias gar ml u,^). 
On the 28th September, 1892, a young Boiler was killed at 
Burgh, near Yarmouth, and preserved by Mr. Lowne. 
Pallas’s Sand Grouse ( Syrrhapte '■$ paradoxus). 
The startling irruption of this singular bird into this country in 
the year 1863, was ably chronicled by the late Mr. Stevenson ; but 
the second visitation, in the year 1888 (of which a detailed 
account by one of the writers of this list, will be found in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1888), greatly exceeded in numbers that previously 
recorded. There seems little doubt that a tlock of fifteen or 
twenty of these birds was also seen by Mr. Boult at \Y interton, on 
