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cla.sscd, as natives and mujrants, yet the Skylark, Titlark, Chaffinch, 
Starling, Greenfinch, Hawfinch, Jay, and even the Rook, which all 
receive accessions to their numbers in autumn and winter, from 
more northern localities, figure only under the head of natives. 
Passing on from the list of “ Birds common,” to the list of 
“ Birds rare about Thetforel,” and which comprises, as Mr. Hunt 
describes it, tliose “ migrants whose nests are seldom found amongst 
us, and those that never breed in this district,” I am as little able 
to reconcile his statements with facts. The Peregrine Falcon is 
stated, and correctly so, to appear “ annually in spring and autumn 
on its migi’atory course.” Then why not have placed it in the 
former list, instead of the Goshawk, which is scarce and accidental ’? 
Ihe Honey Buzzard, according to Mr Hunt, is “occasionally met 
with ill all the summer months, ^wd^reyularly visits us [Thetford] 
in autumn, but it does not breed here.” The first p<art of this 
paragraph is certainly correct as regards the county of Norfolk, but 
I know of no record of this species having been killed about 
Ihetford, and consequently for its reyularly visiting that locality 
in autumn, I should extremely like to know Mr. Hunt’s authority. 
The AVood Warbler, again, appears amongst the rarities, yet is des- 
cribed as “ a regular summer visitant, though not numerous,” and 
being strictly an arboreal species, it was needless to add that it 
“mostly inhabits our woods.” In like manner the AVoodlark, 
which, though in small numbers, breeds regularly in certain locali- 
ties ill the neighbourhood of Thetford (being now-a-days almost 
entirely coniined, through enclosure and cultivation, to the w'estern 
side of the county) figures in this instead of the previous list, and 
is described as placing its nest “ in similar situations to the Sky- 
lark. A strange comment upon the peculiar nesting habits of this 
particular species. 
As before reniarke<i, the Grey AA agtail, which regularly visits 
the banks ot the river “ Thet ” in spring and autumn, is not in- 
cluded in the list of “ natives and migrants,” but the Grey-headed 
AV agtail, we are informed, is “ occasionally seen on our Avarrens,” 
though the statement is further qualified by the remark that “ it is 
a rare bird in this district.” So rare that at present only some 
half-dozen specimens are knoAvn to have occurred in Norfolk, and 
those, Avith but one exception, by the sea coast. 
Scarcely less startling, also, is the announcement that Richard’s 
