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on Breydon. The grey plover was in full summer 

 plumage ; but, as before stated, is a bird which is never 

 known to remain with us for nesting purposes. A pair, 

 in Mr. Newcome's collection, killed by the river at 

 Hockwold, were procured, I believe, in this year during 

 the early autumn ; and from the appearance of their 

 plumage, and other indications, were evidently young 

 birds. 



1855. August 22. Two specimens shown me in the 

 flesh had been procured somewhere in this county. 



1856. September 27. A single bird was killed at 

 Burgh, near Yarmouth. 



1852. May. One in Captain Longe's collection, 

 killed on Breydon. 



From this date, although it is quite possible that 

 others may have been seen or shot, I know of no other 

 occurrence of this species in Norfolk, but Mr. Fenwick 

 Hele, in his " Ornithological Notes from Aldeburgh," in 

 the "Field,"^ shows that in 1867 they were unusually 

 plentiful in that part of Suffolk. 



* In the " Field " of May 25th, 1867, Mr. Hele states that at 

 Thorpe Mere, on the 1st of May, he killed three wood-sandpipers; 

 " they formed part of a small flock," which disappeared shortly 

 after. Again, in the " Field" of August 24th, 1867, he writes — 

 " August 9th ; a flock of wood sandpipers have frequented the 

 First Mere for some days past. I have succeeded in bagging four 

 altogether. The note is similar to that of the green sandpiper, 

 but the flight is higher, and upon alighting these birds " fall " 

 to the ground similar to the jack snipe." In the " Zoologist " 

 for that year, Mr. F. D. Power also recorded an " extraordi- 

 nary flock of wood sandpipers at Rainham, Kent." He states 

 that on the 26th of July his brother " fell in with a large party of 

 wood sandpipers on some marshes near Eainham." He shot one 

 out of three that rose first," but at the report others rose on all 

 sides, and, joining in one large flock, flew round and round at 

 some height, continually whistling; their numbers he estimated 

 at from eighty to a hundred. After they had pitched again, he 

 succeeded in bagging four more, as in small parties " they flew 



