. The birds of Norfolk, with remarks on their habits, migration, and local distribution : . sham, of Rippon Hall, near Norwich,was good enough to place in my hands, as secretary ofthe Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, a seriesof letters written to his great grandfather, Robert Mar-sham, , of Stratton, by Gilbert White, and to thiscorrespondence we owe the knowledge of the fact thaton the oOth October, 1792, a wall-creeper was shot atStratton Strawless, near Mr. Marshams house. Thecorresponding letters from Marsham to White were inthe possession of the late Professor Bell, and by a
. The birds of Norfolk, with remarks on their habits, migration, and local distribution : . sham, of Rippon Hall, near Norwich,was good enough to place in my hands, as secretary ofthe Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists Society, a seriesof letters written to his great grandfather, Robert Mar-sham, , of Stratton, by Gilbert White, and to thiscorrespondence we owe the knowledge of the fact thaton the oOth October, 1792, a wall-creeper was shot atStratton Strawless, near Mr. Marshams house. Thecorresponding letters from Marsham to White were inthe possession of the late Professor Bell, and by amutual exchange the comj^lete series was published bothin the Trans, of the Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc.(ii., pp. 133-195) and in Professor Bells edition of theNatural History of Selborne. The first mention ofthe bird occurs in a letter from Marsham to White,dated Otober 30, 1792, in which he says, My man has just now shot me a bird, which wasflying about my house; i am confident i have never seenits likeness before. But on application to Mr. Willughby, The Bci-^d^^ uf /Vor/olh. PL. FEATHERS OF [appendix a.] BIKDS OF NOEFOLK. 381 i conclude it is a wall creeper or spider catcher. I findhe had not seen it in England.^ White was much interested by the information, andsent him a translation of Scopolis description of thebirdj which induced Marsham to send in return acoloured drawing of two quill-feathers, of which hesays, A young lady drew them for me, and they appearto me to be very exact copies and charmingly executed. Professor Bell was kind enough to lend this drawingto Professor Newton, who found it to represent probablythe fifth and seventh primaries of the wing of a femaleor young male of Tichodroma muraria, leaving nodoubt, as he remarks in a foot-note to the publishedletters, as to the correctness of the determination ofthe specimen by Marsham and White. In his replyWhite remarks, You will have the satisfaction of introducing a newbird of which futu
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