FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
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Ortolan Bunting. 
A male entangled in somcnettingat Yarmouth 5th May, 1906. 
t * Yellow-breasted Bunting ( Emberiza aureola). 
Mr. E. C. Arnold killed an example of this bird at Blakeney 
oil 21st September, 1905 ; a second, an immature male, was 
killed near Wells, on September 5th, 1907. 
* Little Bunting ( Emberiza pusilla). 
An adult female sent to Mr. H. F. Witherby from Clev, 
where it was shot on October 19th, 1908. 
Hoopoe. 
One seen at North Walsham by Rev. M. C. H. Bird on 24th 
March, 1904 ; another at Holkham on 14th April, 1906 ; 
a third by Mr. Walter Rye at Buxton on May 4th, 1907, and 
a fourth at Sidestrand on September 6th, 1908. 
Snowy Owl. 
An example trapped at Cockley Cley near Swaffham in 
April, 1905. 
Purple Heron. 
An immature male shot on Breydon on the 8th August. 
1906. Another picked up in a suburb of Lowestoft, October 
9th, 1907, is now in Norwich Museum. 
Bittern. 
The Bittern was heard “ booming ” at Catfield by Rev. 
M. C. H. Bird on 13th November, 1905, and again by Xudd 
at Hickling on 3rd March, 1906. 
Mr. Bird also informs us that it was again heard on the 
Broad on March 23rd, April 12th, and October 1st, 1908. 
White Stork. 
One of these birds was seen by Mr. Patterson on Breydon 
on 2nd July, 1905. 
Glossy Ibis. 
Four were seen on Breydon, 3rd September, 1906. 
Spoonbills. 
These birds visited Breydon on migration each year as usual. 
In the month of May and early in June, 1904, they were 
unusually numerous, as many as thirteen were seen together, 
one as late as July 8th, and a few as late as June, 1905. 
