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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 10. Stonechat. Pratincola rubicola (Linn.). This is a common resident in suitable localities. 1 1 . Redstart. Ruticilla phcenicurus (Linn.). A common summer migrant. 12. Black Redstart. Ruticilla titys (Scopoli). A winter visitant, probably occurring an- nually. 13. Red-spotted Bluethroat. Cyanecula sue- cica (Linn.). The northern form of bluethroat, which was first detected at Yarmouth in September, 1 84 1, has frequently been obtained in Nor- folk since that time. It appears on the coast as an autumn migrant occasionally in con- siderable numbers, as in September, 1884, when at least 80 were seen at Cley. 14. Redbreast. Erithacus rubecula (Linn.). Common resident and partial migrant. 15. Nightingale. Daulias luscinia (Linn.). A summer migrant, frequent in the neigh- bourhood of Norwich, but somewhat local. 16. Whitethroat. Sylvia cinerea (Bechstein). A common summer visitant. 17. Lesser Whitethroat. Sylvia curruca (Linn.). Also a summer migrant, but local and scarce compared with the preceding species. 18. Blackcap. Sylvia atricapilla (Linn.). A not uncommon summer migrant. 1 9. Garden- Warbler. Sylvia hortensis (Bech- stein). Also a common migrant, more local, and not so frequent as the blackcap. 20. Barred Warbler. Sylvia nisoria (Bech- stein). Four examples of this straggler from the continent have now been killed, and a fifth watched for a considerable time by Mr. Gur- ney, all at Blakeney Point on the Norfolk coast. 21. Dartford Warbler. Sylvia undata (Bod- daert). This unobtrusive little bird is met with on the furze-covered heaths on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, where it breeds in small numbers. 22. Goldcrest. Regulus cristatus, Koch. This species is generally distributed in summer, and receives enormous additions to its numbers during the autumnal migration. Some of these remain with us, but the bulk, as is probably the case with most of our home- bred birds, pass on to the south. 23. Firecrest. Regulus ignicapillus (Brehm). A very rare bird in Norfolk, most of the recorded instances undoubtedly refer to the preceding species. Mr. Gunn received a male in the flesh from Attlebridge in Novem- ber, 1879. 24. Yellow-browed Warbler. Phylloscopm superciliosus (Gmelin). An example of this charming little Asiatic species was killed at Cley-next-the-Sea on October 1st, 1894. Full particulars of the occurrence will be found in The Field for November 3rd, 1894, also in the Zoologist, 1895, p. 100. 25. Pallas's Warbler. Phylloscopus proregulus (Pallas). This bird is another addition to the rare wanderers which the autumnal migratory stream has brought to the prolific locality of Cley-next-the-Sea and Blakeney ; it was killed at the former place on October 31st, 1896. Full particulars of the event will be found in the volume of the Zoologist for 1896, p. 466, and in the Trans, of the Norf. and Nor. Nat. Soc. (with coloured plate), vol. vi. p. 280. 26. Chiffchaff. Phylloscopus rufiis (Bechstein). A summer visitant, not uncommon, but somewhat local. 27. Willow - Warbler. Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.). A common summer visitant. Largely re- presented at the periods of migration. 28. Wood-Warbler. Phylloscopus sibilatrix (Bechstein). A summer visitant, but very local. 29. Icterine Warbler. Hypolais icterina (Vieillot). This bird has been thrice obtained at Blakeney Point during the autumn migration, the last on September 5th, 1898. 30. Reed - Warbler. Acrocephalus streperus (Vieillot). Generally an abundant summer visitant in suitable localities, but rather uncertain. 31. Sedge-Warbler. Acrocephalus phragmitis (Bechstein). Common in summer in suitable localities. 228