FAUX A AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
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Black-winged Stilt ( Himantopus eandidwt). 
An immature female was killed at Castleacre, near Swaffham, bv 
Mr. 1. M. Hudson, J un. , on the 12th of October, 1895 ; four days 
previous to that date, two ot these birds had been seen on the 
Wolverton marshes, by Mr. 0. Plowright and Mr. Petch (ante, 
p. 228). 
Broad- billed Sandpiper ( Ldmicohi platyrhyncha). 
On August the 13th, 1895, two of these birds were seen at 
Blakeney, one of which was shot. This is the first occurrence of 
the Broad-billed Sandpiper at Cley, but four or five have been 
killed on Breydon, where this species was first recognised as 
British in 1836. 
Pectoral Sandpiper (Tringa marulata). 
Mr. J. L. Newman killed an adult female of this species on 
Breydon, on the 18th of August, 1897. rt was in company with 
a flock of Ringed Plovers and Dunlins, but remained on their being 
flushed, and when put to flight rose silently (Zool. 1898, p. 25). 
Common Sandpiper (Totanm Injpoleucus). 
The chief ornithological event of the year 1897, was the discovery 
by Mr. Oswin Lee, on May the 25th, of a nest and four eggs of the 
Common Sandpiper, under a Gooseberry bush at I tickling.* The 
breeding of this bird has long been suspected, but never before 
verified in Norfolk or Suffolk. The nest was not disturbed, nor 
were the birds (also seen by the Rev. M. C. Bird) molested. — C. 
M Hite-winged Tern (HydrocheUdon leucoptera). 
One of these birds killed on Breydon, on the 1 2th of August, 
1896 was exhibited by Mr. B. Dye, at a meeting of our Society; 
it is an adult male, assuming winter plumage. 
Gull-billed Tern (Sterna miglica). 
On the 5th September, 1896, an adult female oi this bird, 
approaching winter plumage, which had been killed on Breydon, 
* This curious situation for a Common Sandpiper’s nest is not unique. 
Thompson, in the ‘Natural History of Ireland’ (vol. ii. ‘Birds,’ p. 212), 
mentions that “an unusual site was selected, some years ago, by a pair 
of Sandpipers, which built their nest in a Gooseberry bush, in a garden 
contiguous to a poud in the neighbourhood of Belfast.” 
