FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
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Crossbill ( Loxia curvirostrn). 
Ihe first week in August, 1898, brought the largest arrival of 
Crossbills our county has had for many years, their presence being 
reported in more than twenty parishes near the coast, from 
Sandringham to Aldehurgh in Suffolk. We are glad to add that 
the recent extension of the county close time was respected, and 
not many were shot. 
* Red-banded Crossbill ( Loxia rubri/asciafa). 
If, as appears from Mr. Dresser’s supplement to ‘The Birds of 
Europe,’ L. rubrifascAata is to he treated as a species, it must he 
received into the Norfolk list, as a male Crossbill, having white or 
huff tips to the wing-coverts, was shot at Westwick, on September 
28th, 1871 (Zool. 1889, p. 391). 
* Great-spotted Cuckoo (Coccystes glandarius). 
A young male, shot by a man named Edmunds, October 18th, 
189G, on Caister denes ; now in the possession of Mr. E. M. Connop, 
to whose museum it is a line addition, had been feeding freelv on 
the larvie of the Buff-tip Moth. On the same day, a Macqueen’s 
Bustard was shot in Lincolnshire, so it is probable they had come 
from the same country, most likely the south-east of Europe, and 
arrived together. 
Roller ( Goracias garrulus). 
On May 28th, 1898, a Roller was found dead at Yelverton, like 
most of those which have occurred here it was a female. Since 
May, 1664, when the first British Roller was killed at Crostwick, 
Norfolk has yielded nineteen of these birds, which are too con- 
spicuous to be likely to be passed by. 
Baillon’s Crake ( Porzana bailloni). 
Mr. T. E. Gunn tells me that he had an egg of this bird brought 
to him which was found by a marshman in a nest composed of dry 
sedge, and situated in a patch of dead vegetation, near the edge of 
a dyke at Sutton Broad, on 2nd May, 1889. The parent bird was 
seen, and Mr. Gunn is quite satisfied from the description as to its 
species. The egg is now in the collection of Sir V. H. Crewe, Bart. 
A nest of this species containing four eggs, now in Mr. Crowfoot’s 
collection, was taken at Potter Heigham, on June 9th, 1886. — S. 
