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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : BIRDS. 
was brought to me in the flesh for identification ; it is now in the 
Connop collection. — S. 
Roseate Tern (Sterna clourjalli). 
Since the first occurrence of this bird near Hunstanton in 1880, 
two females, now in the Connop collection, were shot at Cley, on 
the 24th of June, 1896. There is good reason for believing that 
a pair or two have nested more than once on the Norfolk coast. In 
June, 1897, in company with one of the keenest observers I know, 
I watched a pair (possibly two pairs) of these birds in a favourite 
nesting locality for Terns on the Norfolk coast; they repeatedly settled 
on a spot where we had no doubt their nest was situated, and we 
as often flushed them again, but as the precise spot was situated in 
a hollow we could not see them on the ground, and therefore 
were not certain which was their nest. Shortly after our visit 
a sweeping tide covered the part of the marsh where most of the 
Terns were breeding, but the birds were frequently seen subsequently 
by a very intelligent gunner who had spent his life on the shore, 
and who originally pointed the birds out as unusual. — S. 
Sabine’s Gull (Xema sabinii). 
On the 22nd of October, 1895, at Wells, and again on the 
12th of October, 1896, at Cley, examples of this bird were met 
with in Norfolk. Six examples have now been killed in this 
county, all in immature plumage, and all in the month of October. 
'"'Mediterranean Herring Gull (Larus cachinnans). 
One of these birds, a male by dissection, was killed on Breydon 
by the veteran gunner John Thomas, on the 4th of November, 1886. 
It was seen by Mr. Stevenson in the flesh, and preserved by Mr. Cole, 
but, probably, in consequence of the ill-health of the former, was 
overlooked until recently. Mr. Howard Saunders was good enough 
to examine the bird, and expressed himself quite satisfied with the 
determination of the species. See Zool. 1897, p. 572 ; also the 
present volume of our Trans, p. 417. — S. 
Great Skua (Stercorarius catarrhactes). 
An example of this Gull, rare on our coast, was killed on the 
Snettisham Beach, on the 1st of November, 1895, and another at 
Eccles on January the 9th, 1896. 
