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this subject, VoL YI. p. 158 of our ‘Transactions.’ It is now an 
almost constant visitor in small flocks in spring and summer only. 
Corvus marinus. Cormorant. Building at Reedham, upon 
trees from which King Charles I. w r as wont to be supplied. Still 
a fairly regular visitant to the county. 
Rock Cormorant. Cometh to us in the winter. Probably the 
Shag, now rare on the Norfolk coast. 
Siierewater. Manx Shearwater. First published in Willoughby’s 
‘ Ornithologia,’ as made known to him by Sir T. Browne, who sent 
him a picture and an account of the bird (Newton). A rare bird 
off the Norfolk coast now. 
Bernacleh, Brants, are common. The Bernacle Goose is not 
common now, but the Brent Goose is “an abundant winter visitant 
to our coast ” (Southwell). 
Sheldrakes. Sheledracus jonstoni. Barganders (supposed to 
be a corruption of burrow-ganders) “ well breed in cunny burrows 
about norrold and other places.” Mr. Stevenson in Yol. III. of 
‘ Birds of Norfolk ’ gives an interesting account of the reasons why 
it is probable that these birds should have nested at Northwohl 
(locally Norrold), or near there, which would be from forty to fifty 
miles from the sea, as now-a-days there is no locality known far 
from the sea in which this species breeds. 
Wild Goose. Anser ferns. 
Scotch Goose. Anser scot ic us. 
“ Gosiiander.” Merganser. 
M erg/is acutirostris speciosus or Loone. Great Crested Grebe. 
Here again Browne calls attention to an anatomical peculiarity 
found only in birds of this class. He says, “ they have a peculiar 
formation in the leggebone wch hath a long & sharpe processe 
extending aboue the thigh bone.” 
Mergus acutirostris cinereits. This seems to be a variety of the 
Loon, as Pennant calls the Great Crested Grebe, the Ash-coloured 
Loon of Dr. Brown. 
Mergus minor. Dabchick. 
Mergus serratus. Red-breasted Merganser. 
Mustela variegata. Probably Mergus albellus, or Smew. 
‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ vol. iii. 
A/ios platyrlrinchos. Shoveller Duck. 
Sea Pheasant. Pintail Duck. 
