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MR. W. G. CLARKE ON VERTEBRATE ANIMALS 
The additions to the Library have been numerous and valuable, 
and although it does not come strictly within our province, it 
would not be right to omit the splendid gift of a collection of 
three hundred and fifty-one works of art in oil and water-colour, 
together with numerous fine examples of British and Foreign 
Pottery and Bronzes, made by Mr. J. W. Walker, an artist of note 
and a native of Norwich, more especially as some of the drawings 
by Mrs. Pauline Walker are exquisite representations of Natural 
History subjects. Nor should the addition to the Ethnological 
collection in the shape of Weapons and domestic articles, chiefly from 
the South Sea Islands and the Cape, presented by Mr. J. Trackson 
and Mr. F. Lambert be altogether overlooked. 
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A LIST OF THE VERTEBRATE ANIMALS FOUND 
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THETFORD. 
By W. G. Clarke. 
Read 6tli April, 1897. 
The Town of Thetford is situate within the confines of the Breck 
district, which Stevenson describes in bis invaluable ‘ Birds of 
Norfolk,’ as consisting of “ wide open fields of light land, mixed 
with some of the wildest and most extensive tracts in the county 
of heath, fir-covert, warren, and sheep-walk.” The six-mile radius 
from Thetford, which I have taken to comprise the district, contains 
in Norfolk, the villages of Rushford, Riddlesworth, Brettenham, 
Bridgham, Roudham, Kilverstone, Illington, East and West 
Wretham, Croxton, San ton, West Tofts, and Weeting ; and in 
Suffolk, the villages of Brandon, Santon Downham, Elveden, 
Barnham, Euston, Fakenham, Honington, and Sapiston. The 
district is pre-eminent for its wildness, for in no other district of 
like size in Norfolk or Suffolk is there such a sparsity of inhabited 
