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Yarmouth market; and a Peregrine Falcon was shot on Breydon on the 13th.

Early in the month, three Great Grey Shrikes were killed in the county, at Loddon, Aylsham, and Fakenham.

Waxwings were seen, and two or three shot at Palling, Sheringham, and Hunstanton; at Yarmouth, one was killed in the "Apollo Gardens" on the 14th, and two were reported from Gorleston on the 17th. Woodcocks were numerous about the 15th, when thirty were shot in the coverts at Hempstead.

In bringing my notes for this year to a close, it is something to be thankful for, that, in its last month, Norfolk escaped the severe snowstorms that blocked locomotion, by road and rail, in some parts of Scotland, and in the North of England; as well as the terrible fogs which, from personal experience, I can say, rendered life in London almost unbearable for a time. Still, a modified form of similar wretchedness was ours in a prevalence of, rain, sleet, fog, and cold winds, with a combination of such atmospheric pleasantries on Christmas-day. Slightly varying then the form of a familiar epitaph I would say, of 1882: "Take it for all in all, may we never look upon its like again!"

XXI.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

CHITONS FROM CROMER.

In July, 1883, Mr. A. C. Savin and myself collected a number of Chitons, between tide-marks, at Cromer. All the specimens, except one, belong to Chiton marginatus, Pet., species already recorded by the Rev. G. Munford from Hunstanton. One large specimen is referable to Chiton lævis, Pen., a species apparently new to the county.-CLEMENT REID.

FURTHER NOTES ON THE SPRINGS AND SPAS OF NORFOLK (see ante pp. 318, 525). I was informed by Mr. S. F. Sainty (of the Ordnance Survey) that people have walked miles to drink of the Stibbard Spoy, a spring that runs into the stream about three furlongs due north of Stibbard Church, and to the east of the road between Stibbard and Fulmodeston. It is a chalybeate spring, that issues from the Glacial sands.

Mention is made in The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany (vol. ii. part ii. p. 391), edited by Walter Rye, of a mineral spring that was situated at or near Cromer. No particulars of the water are given; and on referring the matter to Mr. Clement Reid, he informs me (by letter): "I expect it was an iron spring such as we constantly find, but the cliffs have gone too much since 1631 for us to find it now." I am indebted to Mr. Southwell for the reference to Mr. Rye's book.-H. B. WOODWARD.

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