Among the many monedulas or Jackdawes I could neuer in these parts obserue the pyrrhocorax or cornish chough with red leggs & bill to bee co[=m]only seen in Cornwall. & though there bee heere very great [num _crossed out_] store of partridges yet [not _crossed out_] the french Red leggd partridge[45] is not to bee met with [heere _crossed out_]. the Ralla or Rayle[46] wee haue counted a dayntie dish. as also no small number of Quayles. the Heathpoult[47] co[=m]on in the north is vnknown heere as also the Grous. though I haue heard some haue been seen about Lynne. the calandrier or great [_Fol. 19_] great [_sic_] crested lark Galerita I haue not met with heere though with 3 other sorts [of Larkes _written above_] the ground lark woodlark & titlark. [45] The Red-legged Partridge is now common enough; it was introduced into the Eastern Counties at Sudbourne and Rendlesham, in East Suffolk, in or about the year 1770, by both the Marquis of Hertford and Lord Rendlesham. How quickly they established themselves may be judged from the fact that in the season of 1806-7 of 1,927 Partridges killed at Rendlesham 112 were Red legs, but they do not seem to have spread very far. A second introduction, this time into West Suffolk, much nearer to the Norfolk border, at and about Culford, was effected in the year 1823, and from this centre they rapidly spread into Norfolk, in which county also others were imported by the resident proprietors. [46] The Land Rail (_Crex pratensis_) or Daker hen, is doubtless here referred to, as the Water Rail has already been mentioned (p. 15 _ante_) as "a kind of _Ralla aquatica_." This bird is a summer visitor, by no means common and very uncertain in its numbers. The same applies to the Quail, which appears to be less frequent than formerly, no doubt from the great destruction on the Mediterranean coast in spring of the birds migrating to England. In the summer and autumn of 1870 we had an unusual influx of these latter birds. [47] How far the indigenous race of Blackgame, which undoubtedly lingered for many years about Wolferton and Sandringham, still exists, it is difficult to say; examples turn up occasionally, but so many of these birds have been introduced and turned off in different parts of the county in the course of the past forty years, that it is impossible to speak with certainty. Stares or starlings in great numbers. most remarkable in their [great _crossed out_] numerous [_written above_] flocks [about the _crossed out_] wch I haue obserued about the Autumne when they roost at night [up _crossed out_] in the marshes in safe place upon reeds & alders. wch to obserue I went to the marshes about sunne set. where standing by their vsuall place of resort I obserued very many flocks flying from all quarters. wch in lesse than an howers space came all in & settled in innumerable [quantitie _crossed out_] numbers [_written below_] in a small compasse.