Excerpt from The Birds of Norfolk, Vol. 3 of 3: With Remarks on Their Habitats, Migration and Local Distribution IN writing a memoir of the Rev. Richard Lubbock my late friend, Henry Stevenson, truly remarked that many authors have acquired an established reputation not merely by the excellence but by the multiplicity of their published works, whilst others have attained a not less imperishable fame by one effort of genius - a single contribution to some particular class of literature, with which, for all time, they are personally identified. How literally true this is with regard to himself will be cheerfully admitted by all readers of his Birds of Norfolk - One of the earliest of the recent county faunas which have since become so numerous. It is as pre-eminent, so far as its author completed his work, for the exact acquaintance with his subject it displays, as for the skilful way in which the biography of each species is just sufficiently treated, and the pleasing style in which the results of his observations are recorded. Of Mr. Stevenson it may truly be said that this single contribution to the ornithology of his county has established for him a reputation which will last so long as the study endures. The family of Stevenson settled in Norwich in 1785, their first representative here being William Stevenson, a miniature painter, and pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose father, the Rev. Seth Ellis Stevenson, was rector Of Treswell in Notting hamshire. William Stevenson entered into partnership with the proprietor of the Norfolk Chronicle, an old - established county Tory journal, which remained the property of the family until it was formed into a Joint Stock Company in 1886. 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.