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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
[Green-backed Gallinule ( Porphyrio smararjdonotus). 
On July 19th, 1898, another of these birds was shot on Barton 
Broad, the tenth in this county, and the sixth at this particular 
broad. If they have all escaped, the instinct which leads so many 
to the same place is very remarkable. — G. A Porphyrio killed 
near Brandon in the spring of 1896 proved to be P. calvus, 
undoubtedly an escape]. — S. 
Crane ( Grus communis). 
On April 7th, 1898, Mr. ti. N. Pashley announced the arrival of 
four Cranes on their spring migration, which halted near the mouth 
of the little river Glaven, and remained all the forenoon within 
200 yards of a gang of workmen, quietly resting themselves on the 
side of Wiveton bank. Subsequently Mr. Pashley had a good 
view of them as they were flying eastwards, and they were next 
heard of as visiting a piece of water at Weybourne. It is possible 
that a very light variety of the Crane shot near Feltwell, as long 
ago as August, 1836, in Mr. F. Newcome’s collection, may be the 
eastern race, which has received the name of Grus lil/ordi, Sharpe; 
though its white back and the spotted character of the plumage is 
perhaps more indicative of a partial albinism in G. communis. — G. 
Bustard ( Otis tarda). 
A full account of the female Great Bustard, shot at Costessey, near 
Norwich, on the 1st of February, 1894, will be found in vol. v. of 
our ‘Transactions,’ p. 656. I have also given particulars in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1897, p. 572, and in the present volume of our 
‘ Transactions,’ p. 385, of a very tine male of the old Norfolk race 
(till then not recorded), which was killed on Swaffham Heath about 
the year 1830, and is now in Mr. Connop's collection. — S. 
Little Bustard ( Otis tetrax). 
Colonel Butler records the occurrence of a female of this species 
at Feltwell, on the 1st of January, 1898, in the ‘Zoologist’ for that 
year, p. 125. A beautiful male Little Bustard in full breeding 
plumage, a condition in which it has not, to my knowledge, been 
met with in Britain, was killed near Kessingland, in the adjoining 
county of Suffolk, early in May, 1898; it is now in Mr. Connop’s 
collection. All previous occurrences in the East of England have 
been in the winter months. — S. 
