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Rose-coloured I^astor and Purple Heron. — Amongst the 
rarer birds obtained in this county during the past year may be 
recorded an adult male rose-coloured pastor, killed at Reedliam, 
near Yarmouth, on the 17th of August, and a young purple heron, 
now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., killed at 
Horning, on the 4th ol December. //. Stevenson. 
Lapland Bunting at Cley-next-the-sea, in Norfolk. On 
the 18th of December, Mr. H. Pashley, bird-stulfer, informed me 
that ho had a bird with an elongated hind-claw, which answered to 
the de.scription of the Lark-heeled Bunting. Shortly after it passed 
into the possession of Mr. H. M. Upcher, who sent it to Mr. Baker, 
a bird-stulfer at Cambridge, where it came under the observation of 
Professor Newton and Mr. Tuck. 
I am informed- that there is no doubt about the species, and that 
it IS a male in immature or winter plumage, like almost all the 
others which have occurred in this country. 
Respecting the capture of this bird l\Ir. Pashley writes “I 
shot it in the last week of October, about five or six hundred 
yards from the beach ; it was quite alone. There was a something 
about it that attracted my notice, or I should not have thrown a 
charge from a large Hight-gun at it of No. 1 shot." 
Notices of the two previous occurrences of this species in Norfolk 
wiU be found at pages 4631 and 8032 of the “Zoologist,” and at 
page 181 of the first vol. of the “Birds of Norfolk.” 
J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Occurrence op White’s Thrush {Oreocincla trhitei, Gould) for 
the first time in Norfolk. — A very beautiful example of this 
fine Asiatic species, which till very recently was considered one 
of the rarest birds in the British list, was killed by Mr. F. Borrett, 
on ther 10th of October, 1871, in a low meadow at Hickling, and 
by permission of its present possessor, the Rev. S. Jilicklethwaite, 
■was exhibited at the November meeting of this Society, by l\Ir. 
J. H. Gurney, jun., who made some remarks upon the genus 
Oreocincla as distinguished from that of Turdus. This bird, as it 
rose some thirty yards off, was mistaken by Mr. Borrett for a 
woodcock, from its large size and peculiarity of flight ; a resemblance 
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