[42] Browne seems to have been much interested in this remarkable bird, and mentions it again in his second and third letters to Merrett, especially in the latter; he calls it Caprimulgus, but conceives it to be a kind of Accipiter, _muscarius_, or _cantharophagus_, "in brief" [?] "_avis rostratula gutturosa_, _quasi coxans_, _scarabæis vescens_, _sub vesperam volans_, _ovum speciassisimum excludens_," a fair specimen of the descriptive method of the time. Although he used the name Caprimulgus, it will be observed that he does not mention the "vulgar error" which led to its being so called. Merrett includes this species in the _Pinax_ under the name of "Caprimulgus, or the Goat-sucker," but in a letter to Browne tells him he knows no Hawk called a Dorhawk. [_Fol. 18._] Auis Trogloditica[43] or Chock a small bird mixed of black & white & breeding in cony borrouges whereof the warrens are full from April to September. at which time they leaue the country. they are taken with an Hobby and a net and are a very good dish. [43] The Wheatear is here referred to; the name _trogloditica_ would seem to be more appropriate in this country, having reference to its habits of nesting in "Cony borroughs," than that of _ænanthe_, as applied to it by those who knew it as frequenting the Continental vineyards. A name still, or recently in use in West Norfolk, is Cony-chuck. Spermologus. [_sic_] Rookes wch by reason of the [in reason of _crossed out_] great quantitie of corn feilds & Rooke groues are in great plentie the yong ones are co[=m]only eaten sometimes sold in norwich market & many are killd for their Liuers in order to cure of the Rickets. Crowes[44] as euerywhere and also the coruus variegatus or pyed crowe with dunne & black interchangeably they come in the winter & depart in the summer & seeme to bee the same wch clusius discribeth in the faro Islands from whence perhaps these come. [they are _crossed out_] and I have seen them [_written above_] very co[=m]on in Ireland, butt not known in many parts of England. [44] The Crow (_Corvus corone_) is much less common in Norfolk than formerly, but it still nests here in a few scattered localities. _C. cornix_, the Hooded, Norway, Danish, or "Royston" Crow, is an autumn immigrant as of yore, but not especially from the Faröe Islands; both species (or forms as by some regarded) are immigrants from the east, but the latter, as a rule, occupies a more northern range than the former. The Raven (_C. corax_) is now a very rare visitor to Norfolk; it is probable that it last nested in this county in the year 1859. The Jackdaw, or Caddow, is common enough, but the Chough (_Pyrrhocorax graculus_) is quite unknown in Norfolk. Although the Magpie must have been well known to Browne I find no mention of it in these notes. Coruus maior Rauens in good plentie about the citty wch makes so few Kites to bee seen hereabout. they build in woods very early & lay egges in februarie.