Excerpt from The Birds of Norfolk, Vol. 1 of 2: With Remarks on Their Habits, Migration, and Local Distribution As may be imagined the interval of just twenty years, since this last publication, has not passed without many and great changes being effected in the physical condition of the county; and much that was then accurately descriptive of its ornithological status, is now but a tale of the past. Residents have become migrants, and migrants resident, though the latter in fewer instances, and from very different causes; whilst no less than eighteen species, all rare and accidental visitants, have been added on good authority. Of such occurrences since 1846, records have been made, from time to time, in the pages of the and from these details, together with the communications of local naturalists and a careful analysis of my own note-books for the last sixteen years, I have been enabled to bring down to the present time the history of the Birds of Norfolk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.