MR. CLARKE ON NATURAL HISTORY OF THF.TFORD DISTRICT. 387 
Brandon name for the Yellow Bunting; and “Swing-tree" 
for the Golden-crested Wren and Long-tailed Titmouse. 
The only recorded species on which doubt has been thrown 
are the Sand Lizard and Green Lizard, and for these there 
appears to be insufficient evidence. A query as to the nesting 
of the Short-eared Owl in the district may now be answered, 
for in the last week of May, 1898, an egg of this species was 
found on a heath at Barnham and identified by the Rev. 
R. B. Caton. It can also hardly be doubted from the evidence 
given hereafter, that the Hobby should be added to the 102 
species of birds known to nest in the neighbourhood ol 
Thetford. 
Concerning the mammalia I have few noteworthy records. 
Cream-coloured Moles have been caught at Barnham and 
Kilverstone, and yellow specimens in a field near the river, 
opposite Burnt Hall, Fakenham. At the end of June or 
beginning of July, 1903. a dog Badger was caught in a rabbit 
trap on a heath at Elveden, and was so badly injured that it 
had to be killed. A few Otters have been killed each year on 
the Little Ouse or Thet. A dog Otter, 4 ft. 1 in. in length and 
weighing 25 i lbs. was killed near the Nunnery, Thetford. 
on January 19th, 1900, and a female, 3 ft. 9 in. in length, on 
October 24th, 1903. One was shot at Santon Downham on 
November 15th, 1903, and two others at Shadwell on March 
30th, 1904. Of the latter, one was 1 ft. 8 in. long, apparently 
about three or four months old. and the other was a female 
far advanced in pregnancy with milk oozing from its teats. 
Light-coloured Hares have been shot at various times, and on 
Bromehill, Weeting. a few years ago, there was a race of white 
Rabbits, and also a large number half white and half grey. 
On several of the large estates in the vicinity Rabbits have 
been practically exterminated, owing in one case to the 
possibility of race-horses being injured in their burrows, and 
in others to a belief that Rabbits and Game do not flourish in 
the same localities. 
My list, previously published, of the species of birds observed 
within a six-mile radius of Thetford. numbered 183. The 
following additional species bring the total to 192 — which 
