in the same journal as obtained in Lincolnshire, Hampshire, and at Balls Park, Hertfordshire, about the same time.

QUAIL. One shot at Shotesham on the 6th; and another, in the same locality, on the 10th.

OCTOBER.

SHORE LARK. I had a male sent me alive for my aviary from Yarmouth, on the 10th.

SUMMER MIGRANTS. A Wheatear and Redstart were seen at Northrepps on the 13th, and a Goatsucker was shot on Yarmouth beach on the 23rd of September. On the 16th of October a Chiffchaff was killed at Yarmouth, and a House Martin seen October 16th. On the 5th two Ring Ouzels, one adult and one immature, were shot at Somerton.

SKUAS. One Great Skua, two Pomatorhines (one black variety, the other white-breasted with dark bars), and an adult Richardson were shot off Yarmouth on the 3rd. Also two immature Richardson's on the 21st, two adult and one immature Buffon's Skuas about the 22nd, and an adult Pomatorhine on the 25th. The Great Skua is quite a rarity on our Eastern coast, I have but one in my collection, and that from Lowestoft, Suffolk.

WOOD LARK. A single bird was shot on Yarmouth Denes on the 5th, a strange date and locality.

SPOTTED CRAKE. This species also occurred throughout this month in some numbers in the Broad district.

GREY CROW. A considerable flock seen to arrive on the coast, about Northrepps, on the 4th.

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE.

An immature bird obtained at Yarmouth on the 3rd. Mr. Fenwick Hele also recorded in the 'Field' of October 26th two of these birds as shot at Alburgh in Suffolk, a few days before.

SABINE'S GULL. Two immature birds, male and female, were shot on Breydon on the 17th and 22nd; the first occurrence of this species in Norfolk. See paper in last year's Transactions.' Two other examples, also young birds, were recorded in the Field' and 'Zoologist' as obtained, one at the mouth of the Liffey, and one at Dublin, in the previous month.

LITTLE GULL. Two or three specimens shot on Breydon at the same time as the Sabine's Gulls; whence the report that five of the latter had been obtained.

STORM PETREL. One shot at Gorleston on the 17th, and one at Cley on the 21st.

WILD GEESE. A Bean Goose and Grey Lag-goose, both immature, were shot at Yarmouth on the 15th and 22nd.

KENTISH PLOVER. Two immature specimens killed on Breydon on the 24th, making a most unusual number in one season. SHORE LARK. Two on Yarmouth Denes, October 26th. GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. A considerable number were observed about the Caister Road, next Yarmouth, on the 22nd and 23rd.

TENGMALM'S OWL. Certainly the rarest bird of the season, next to the Sabine's Gull, was an adult male of this species, secured by the keeper of the Cromer lighthouse as it fluttered against the lantern on the night of October 30th. It came into the possession of Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., who recorded its capture in the 'Zoologist.' This is the third specimen obtained in Norfolk. In the 'Field' of November 18th, another bird of this species was said to have been shot at Dartford.

NOVEMBER.

SPOTTED RAIL. Again, this month, I heard of some eight or ten specimens shot in the Yarmouth neighbourhood, and four near Lowestoft. I have reason to believe it still nests on the margins of our wildest and most extensive Broads.

SCLAVONIAN GREBE. An immature bird, near Yarmouth, on the 9th.

SHORE LARK. On the 13th I received another live specimen from Yarmouth for my aviary, with Snow Buntings and Twites. It may be mentioned here, that on the 9th thousands of Snow Buntings and Shore Larks were observed, passing south, at Heligoland.

SNIPE DRUMMING IN WINTER. Several of these birds were heard at Ranworth on the 8th, making their well-known sound as in spring.

GREAT GREY SHRIKE. A bird of this species was taken alive at Beeston near Cromer about the 15th.

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LATE HOUSE MARTINS AND SWALLOWS. One Martin seen, November 11th, at Overstand, and two Swallows at Cromer on the 18th; and several House Martins were also seen at Cromer on December 5th.

DECEMBER

WINTER ARRIVALS. A large number of Snow Buntings and Twites (the latter unusually numerous this season) appeared at Yarmouth on the 14th of November; and it is interesting to note that Mr. Cordeaux, in the Zoologist,' remarks that, from that very date till the middle of December, "Snow Buntings frequented the stubble fields on the Lincolnshire coast in flocks of thousands, feeding, with almost equal numbers of Greenfinches, flocks of Tree Sparrows, and some Linnets and Twites, on oats that had been shelled out by a high wind on August 26th. Mealy Redpolls appeared in the bird-dealers' shops in Norwich on the 5th, and were said to be plentiful. Siskins were also numerous about the same time, especially near the coast. The number of Wood Pigeons observed migrating near Yarmouth and Northrepps, late in November and beginning of December, was a feature of the season. Mr. G. Smith of Yarmouth informs me that they were seen on Caister Denes, on November 27th, passing by hundreds; and again at Beccles on the 28th. At Northrepps, large flocks were noticed on November 15th going south, and again on December 16th in about equal numbers. Fieldfares and Redwings were scarce everywhere, but a flock of the former appeared at Northrepps on the 1st of December.

ROBINS NESTING IN WINTER. A pair of Robins built their nest and reared a brood of young ones at Merton Hall, their young being hatched on the 8th of this month.

LITTLE GULL. Another immature specimen was shot from the beach at Yarmouth on December 1st.

WAXWING. A few of these uncertain visitants appear to have arrived on the coast late in the month, as one was sent to a Norwich birdstuffer on the 28th; and a few days before two or three were seen near Holt, and one in the neighbourhood of Lamas. One or two were also seen at Burgh near Yarmouth.

LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. A female was shot in a plantation, near Mr. Harmer's house at Cringleford, on the 16th.

RAPTORIAL MIGRANTS.

In January a Rough-legged Buzzard was shot at Filby on the 7th, and another at Hanworth, near Cromer, on the 14th; and on the 18th a Peregrine was seen close by at Gunton. On the 28th a live Short-eared Owl was sent me from Yarmouth; and on the 31st five were seen on Roughton Heath near Cromer, and three on the Warren. Again on the 24th of February a Short-eared Owl was observed by a gamekeeper at Northrepps, flying round inside his garden, and dropping down every few minutes after mice. The same keeper, on the 6th of March, saw a Sparrow Hawk chasing a Short-eared Owl. On the 7th of February a young Hen Harrier was shot at Flegg Burgh, and another at Hickling on the 14th; and a Marsh Harrier was seen at Ranworth on the 18th. A Peregrine Falcon was also seen at the same time and place; and a young bird was sent up to Norwich (no locality) early in the month, and a nearly adult bird from Gorleston on the 3rd. A Common Buzzard was killed at Letheringsett in February, and a Rough-legged Buzzard at Thornage on the 1st of March. Short-eared Owls appeared, singly, at Northrepps on March 26th and April 3rd, and a Buzzard on the 18th of April.

An unusual number of Marsh Harriers were seen this spring in the Broad district, and one or two frequented the larger Broads throughout the season, but I have reason to believe they did not nest, as the Short-eared Owls undoubtedly did. An Osprey was seen at Potter Heigham on the 13th of June but from that date, excepting the Hobbies' nests found in Foxley Wood by Mr. F. Norgate, already recorded in our 'Transactions,' I have no other raptorial notes till the month of September, which was remarkable for the

ABUNDANCE OF HONEY AND COMMON BUZZARDS.

The chief Ornithological feature of the year was, undoubtedly, the considerable influx of Honey and Common Buzzards in September, along our whole line of coast and adjoining parts of Suffolk, simultaneously; the specimens seen or obtained, occurring between the 21st and 31st of the month. From my own notes, at the time, from Yarmouth and its neighbourhood, chiefly supplied to me by Mr. G. Smith of the Priory, and from notes made by Mr. Gurney as to examples seen or killed in the Cromer district,

I have made out the following list, which may give some little idea of the extent of the immigration; but I have had some difficulty in avoiding repetition in numbers, as birds recorded from the coast appeared again, in many instances, in our birdstuffers' shops.

Or these birds, reckoning both species, thirteen occurred at Yarmouth, or on the Broads adjoining, and at Fritton and Somerleyton, on the borders of Suffolk; eleven in the neighbourhood of Cromer and Northrepps; three inland, and one at Hunstanton, near Lynn; the only record I find from that part of the coast. Of five, localities not known.

We have had no such visitation of Honey Buzzards since September, 1841, and the numbers then seen or procured fell far short of the present record.

With the exception of a Buzzard, seen inland, on the 21st, at Cranmer, near Fakenham, the first indication of this raptorial invasion was the appearance, on the morning of the 24th, of three Common Buzzards, three Sparrow Hawks, and a Harrier, washed up dead on the beach at Yarmouth, as stated by Mr. Patterson in a letter to the Daily Press,' drowned, evidently, by some mischance on their way to our shores. On the 23rd a Honey Buzzard had been taken alive on the Drive at Yarmouth, and a Common Buzzard shot on the North Denes, but ten, at least, of the specimens included in my list were seen or obtained on the 24th, the rest between that date and the 31st. Two Honey Buzzards were also sent to Norwich on October 1st and 6th, localities not known. I could not ascertain that a single adult bird had appeared amongst the Honey Buzzards. Two young birds, which Mr. Gurney secured alive, were prettily mottled in the immature dress, but died in the spring of the following year. One large Hawk, supposed to be a Buzzard, which was seen soaring at a great height at Northrepps on the 27th, was being mobbed by two flocks of small birds, estimated at about two hundred. A Honey Buzzard, which was trapped at a Wasps' nest at Southrepps, had dug out a hole big enough to get into, and