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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
* Tawny Pipit ( Anthus campestris). 
A female, in rather faded plumage, now in Mr. Connop’s 
collection, was caught in a clap-net on the North Denes, Great 
Yarmouth, on the 7th of October, 1897. The wind on the previous 
day had been from the S. W. On the 2nd September, 1889, one 
of these birds had been taken at Lowestoft (Zool. 1890, p. 57). 
* Scandinavian Rock Pipit ( Anthus rupestris). 
Mr. Gurney remarks (Zool. 1895, p. 96) that this well-marked 
race (or species) like the Black Redstart, only occurs on our coast 
on its westward migration, about the month of March. Two males 
were shot at Cley, on the 6th of March, 1894; and three others, 
also males, but showing very little of the vinous breast and grey 
head of the breeding plumage, were shot at the mouth of the 
river Glaven, on the 28th of February, 1896. We have hitherto 
treated this bird as merely a variety of Anthus ohscurus, but we 
think we are now justified in giving it specific value. 
Richard’s Pipit ( Anthus ricardi). 
A specimen, now in the Norwich Museum, was taken alive near 
Yarmouth, on the 11th of December, 1894 (Zool. 1895, p. 102). 
Serin Finch ( Serinus liortidanus). 
On the 1st of April, 1897, a pair of these birds were seen near 
Yarmouth, and the male taken; it is a much brighter specimen 
than one, also netted by bird-catchers at Saxmundham (Suffolk) in 
April, 1893. Although a common cage bird on the Continent, we 
think that it may now be fairly considered as an occasional migrant 
here. 
Holboell’8 Redpoll ( Canahina holboelli). 
Dr. Sharpe states that two specimens of this sub-species dis- 
tinguished from the Mealy Redpoll by its larger bill, taken near 
Norwich, several years ago, are in the Natural History Museum 
(‘Catalogue of Birds,’ vol. xii. p. 251). 
Russian Bullfinch ( PyrrliuJa major). 
A male shot on the denes near Yarmouth, on January 22nd, 1893, 
at which time of the year Mr. Ilartert says it is very common in 
East Prussia, whence this may have come ; others have since boen 
taken in Yorkshire. — G. 
