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LEAVES FROM AN OLD DIARY. 
Found Atroplex pedunculata, Ruppia marit \ima] & Lannich [ellia] 
palust [ns] ” The Ivs here mentioned were doubtless the Kirbys, 
but who H. Trimmer was I cannot tell. Mr. Millard suggests that 
he may have been the elder brother of the Rev. Kirby Trimmer, 
late of St. George, Tombland, the botanist, who certainly had 
a brother Henry. 
September 15th “Went to Heacham, Mr. N. Styleman observed 
the Swallows to have congregated that morns' & covered the roof 
of a house there. Id. Trim r - shot a Larus canus & JVcvvius and 
a Sterna with a Blackcap not mentioned in Berkenhout — neck 
breast & underpart of the wings white, head black, back & upper 
part of the wings ash colour, remiges black w rtlx a broad white 
margin, rectrices white. 18 inches in length. 3 ft from wing to 
wing.” Berkenhout, whom Dr. Sutton probably follows, applies 
the name Larus ncevius, Lin., to a bird formerly known as the 
Wagel Gull ; this name was probably used indiscriminately for the 
young of both the Herring and the Lesser Black-backed Gull, the 
immature forms of both these birds not having been recognised as 
such, but regarded as one distinct species. The Tern, I think, 
seems most likely to have been the Sandwich Tern, although the 
description does not quite agree with the plumage of that species — 
Berkenhout mentions only three species of Tern, the Common, 
Lesser, and Black Terns. 
October 22. After mentioning a very high tide occurring at the 
high spring with a hard N. W. wind which, however, did little 
damage except to the Rabbits, 4 doz. and 1 1 of which were picked 
up drowned at the marsh gate near his house, he goes on to say : 
“ A whale was cast ashore first at Thornham where they cut off its 
tail & one fin & the bacon off its sides, & made 16£ of the oil 
they sold at the rate of 5 d ■ a pint, it floated afterwards & was 
cast on the bank of Mrs. Panton’s fresh marsh, where I saw it, it 
appeared to have been 18 ft. long — a row of teeth in both jaws 
& a spout hole of the shape of a horse shoe at the back of the 
head the eye (I co d see but one as it lay on its side) was small 
& very nearly on a line with the mouth — whether it had had a fin 
on the back, co d not tell, the side fins were large boney & bent 
like elbows — it is the Delphinus orca Lin. anglice a Grampus.” 
See also 14th August, 1801. 
