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remarked the same absence of note in confinement, which 

 makes the name of 'Chatterer ' rather inaf)propriate. After 

 a few days they found their way still further mto Norwich, 

 and when last seen were perched on thorn trees adjoining 

 a coach-builder's at St. Giles's Gates, but the original number, 

 which was said to have been six, was reduced to three, 

 so I fear the others had been starved. Owing to the wild 

 hawthorn, privet, and elder berries being all over, several 

 of the Waxwings were discovered in gardens, where no doubt 

 there was more chance of finding food. In Surrej^ Street, 

 Norwich, one actually came down the chimney of a drawing 

 room. 



" At Sheringham I learn from Mr. Patterson of a little 

 flock, which at one time numbered as many as ten, being 

 for some time in a j)rivate sh rubber}^, where they were seen 

 to slake their thkst at an artificial pond ; and in another 

 case a bird was watched with great interest from a drawing- 

 room window at Fritton. 



" Specimens dissected by Mr. E. T. Roberts had been 

 feeding upon elder berries, bullaces (?), and hawthorn 

 berries, to which Mr. G-unn adds ivy and the wild rose, 

 but holly berries Waxwings apparently have a distaste for. 

 It may be wondered where they got bullaces at this time 

 of the year, but Mr. Roberts tells me a pair were shot on 

 a buUace-plum tree, and each contained a small plum 

 stone." 



Two seen, one shot, at Burnliam Market early in January ; 

 one shot at Hanworth on February 8th (G. B. Hony). 



Suffolk. — ^A flock of five or six near Beccles on Decem- 

 ber 22nd ; a flock of five or six frequented a garden in 

 Lowestoft from December 17th to 24th ; three at Oulton 

 Broad on January 3rd, and one on January 7th ; one near 

 Lowestoft on January 15th ; one near Aldeburgh about 

 January 21st (C. B. Ticehurst). Two at Rougham on Decem- 

 ber 25th (Rev. J. G. Tuck, Zool., 1914, p. 75), 



Cambridgeshire. — Waxwings were seen in a garden on 

 the outskirts of Cambridge from January 22nd to 25tli ; 

 on the 23rd one was watched for about haK-an-hour in a 

 small birch tree ; five or six were seen on January 25th, 

 and they appeared to have been feeding on rose hips 

 (W. Farren). 



Kent. — One at Crouch on January 30th ; two seen by 

 Mr. Elgar of Maidstone Museum in that town feeding on 

 hawthorn berries on January 26th, and to the present date 



