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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK. 
Bittern, Common. — That the Bittern should have returned 
to breed in Norfolk after an interval of 25 years 
is a matter for much congratulation, not only 
to Norfolk Naturalists but to all British 
Ornithologists. On July 8th, 1911, a young 
Bittern was found in a dense reed-bed in East 
Norfolk by Miss E. L. Turner and J. Vincent, 
and photographed by the former. This nestling 
was seen by several other witnesses, and later in 
the same month two young Bitterns were seen 
by the owner of the property. On Aug. 21st, 
1912, 11 A Bittern [was] seen by Mr. Robert 
Gurney on a tussock of bent-down reeds, with a 
completely fledged young one standing by it.” 
In 1913 it is highly probable that a pair of 
Bitterns nested in the same locality in East 
Norfolk. (Zook, Ap., 1912; May, 1913). 
STORK, White. — A White Stork was seen at Hickling on 
Ap. 26th, 1912. (Zook, May, 1913). 
IBIS, Glossy. — During the five years under review the Glossy 
Ibis has been an occasional autumnal and winter 
visitor to the county. On Aug. 28th, 1909, two 
were seen by the watcher on Breydon ; and on 
Dec. 2nd one was shot near Yarmouth. Mr. 
Gurney thinks this was probably the last survivor 
of a flock from which deaths had been recorded 
in October from Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, 
Huntingdonshire, Devonshire and Ireland, (c/. 
“ British Birds,” Vol. III., pp. 229 and 308). 
On Nov. 1st, 1912, Mr. E- C. Saunders reports 
a Glossy Ibis on Filby Broad, and another near 
Breydon on Dec. 2nd. On Oct. 28th, 1913, a 
specimen was obtained at Acle. 
SPOONBILL. — So regularly do Spoonbills now visit Breydon 
every summer that it would be wearisome to 
chronicle all the dates recorded during the past 
