Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes

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[D] _Simon Wilkin_ (1790-1862), the able editor of Sir Thomas Browne's collected works, was born at Costessey near Norwich, in the year 1790. He came to Norwich after his father...

In Wilkin's Edition of the Notes the statement, "I met" with Cranes in a dish should be, "I meet with," &c., as it is in the original. The occasion referred to was probably an e...

[24] Moor-hens are of course numerous in all suitable localities, and the Water Rail is still fairly common, but its eggs have a market value and are (or were) sadly stolen; a f...

[41] This paragraph is written on the back of fol. 16. The Red-backed Shrike, _Lanius collurio_, is the only species of Lanius mentioned by Browne; it is singular that he omits...

[54] A Scolopendra, ten feet long, is at first rather startling, but on referring to Rondeletius's _Libri de piscibus Marinis_ (lib. xvi. p. 488), I find that under the name "Sc...

[81] Probably _Nephrops norvegicus_, the Norway Lobster, called at Lowestoft a Crayfish or Prawn. They are sometimes brought in in large numbers by the steam trawlers, but the p...

NOTE.--Although Browne's account of the Fishes is doubtless derived from his personal observation, I have found it very difficult in some families, such as the Cods, Rays, Gurna...

I send you a few flies[110] which some unhealthful yeares about the first part of september I haue obserued so numerous upon plashes in the marshes & marish diches that in a sma...

[_Fol. 105._] Sr I craue your pardon for this delayed returne unto your last, whose courteus acceptance & worthy entertaynment [?] deserued [a speed _blotted out_] even a speedi...

"Some bones of our whale were left in several fields which when the earth hath obscured them, may deceive some hereafter, that the sea hath come so high. In northern nations whe...