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Note. Since the above was communicated I have obtained two 
other specimens, both of which differed from the normal type of 
either Sorex fodiens or remifer. The upper part in both instances 
was nearly black, the under being iron grey with no trace of the 
chesnut throat. Professor Bell kindly examined one of these for 
me, and pronounced it to he a variety of S. fodiens. He also 
informs me that many others have been observed intermediate 
between the normal water slirew with the under part pure white, 
and the so-called oared shrew with that part nearly as dark as the 
back, and that it is now believed Sorex remifer is merely a variety 
of S. fodiens. 
Ornithological Notes for 1872 — 3. 
By H. Stevenson. 
Snowy Owl (Surnia nyctea.) Since the occurrence of the 
immature bird of this species, noticed in our Transactions for 
last year, a hitherto unrecorded Norfolk specimen has come under 
my notice. This example, also in immature plumage, is now in 
the possession of the Kev. W. G. Wilson, of Porncett St. Peter, 
who has kindly furnished me with the followhig particulars. It 
was first seen by him twenty-five years ago, at the house of the 
late Eev. P. Bevan, of Carleton Eode, by whom he was informed 
that it had been shot in that parish some years before j and he 
subsequently purchased the bird at the sale of Mr. Bevan’s effects. 
The Eev. Thomas Pulcher, of Old Buckenham, an old friend of 
Mr. Bevan’s, also remembers his stating, on more than one occa- 
sion, that this owl was shot at Carleton Eode ; and whilst he is 
certain that it was not in Mr. Bevan’s possession when he made his 
acquaintance, in 1824, is inclined to fix the date of his first seeing 
it about the year 1830. 
Dipper {Cinclus aquaticus.) A specimeu of this accidental 
visitant to our coast is recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney, in the 
Zoologist, S.S., p. 3103, as having been shot by Mr. E. W. Ketton, 
(in whose possession it now is,) at the side of a pond, in Pelbrigg 
Park, on the 18th of April, 1872. This bird, like nearly all that 
3 have examined, killed in this county, has the black brca.st ol 
