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Grey-iieaped Yeleow Wagtail. A female of this species, 
tlie Motacilla neglecta of GoiiM, wliich has occasionally, but 
rarely, been mot with in this couiit}% was procureil by !Mr. Gunn, 
on the 30th of Ajiril last, by the river side at Heigham, Xorwich. 
OccuuuENCE OF THE Alpine SwiFT {Cypsdus alpinus) ix 
XoitFOLK. A specimen of this fine swift, a straggler from Southern 
Jhirope, was killed on the 0th of September, by a man named 
Alfred Andrews, as it flew over the long marsh at the back of 
Ihoydon Wall, and is now in the posse.ssion of Mr. J. Overend, of 
Yarmouth, to whom I am indebted for the above particulars. Xo 
other swifts were observed at the time. l>ut one other example 
of this species is known to have been killed in Xorfolk, which 
was shot in the parish of Old Ihickenham, in the latter part of 
September, 1831, and recently presented to the X'orwich Museum 
by the Rev. Thomas Fulcher. On the Suffolk coast, Mr. X. F. 
Hole, of Aldeburgh, recorded in the Field, of September 17th, 
1870, the capture of an immature specimen in a room of the 
Brudenhall Hotel, at Aldeburgh, which, with a companion that 
escaped, had been seen fluttering against the window. I may 
here add, that on two occasions during the last week in June, 
1871, I remarked a gigantic swift, in flight with others of the 
ordinary species, jiassing over my garden close to the city, and 
which I believe to have been of this species. Jlr. H. M. Upcher 
also informs me, that on the 5th of October of this }^ear, a supposed 
Alpine swift was seen at Sherringham. 
Americax white wixged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptcra.) 
(Giuelin.) On the 9th of October, 18/ 2, ^Ir. John Ilenrv Gurnev, 
junior, jiureliasecl alive, of a. man named Harvej', at Yarmouth, 
(son ot the noted game dealer of that name, mentioned by ^Messrs. 
Paget,) a female example of this crossbill, which, until recognised 
by i\Ir. Ciurney as a rarity, had been taken for the common species. 
According to Harvey’s account, it was caught on the rigging of a 
vessel named the Beecher Stowe, which arrived at Yarmouth in 
October, 1870. It was then in a wretched state of plumage from 
close confinement, but had since been kept as a pet by Harvev, 
and was extremely tame. Yan-ell, who included both this and 
the European white winged crossbill, (Loxia hifasciata, Xilsson,) 
