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marked attachment exists between old and young, of 
which Mr. Lubbock, in his “Fauna,” gives a curious 
instance. An old bird, which had been shot at and 
slightly wounded in the pinion, having been turned 
loose into a walled-in garden, became exceedingly 
clamorous at sunrise, the following morning, and thus 
attracted a young one to the place of its confinement. 
This, after some difficulty, was also captured, and 
exhibited the greatest satisfaction at regaining its 
parent, seemingly quite indifferent to its own liberty. 
In June and July old and young together are frequently 
flushed from the turnips in the vicinity of their breeding 
grounds, and previous to their departure in October they 
collect together in considerable numbers; in some places, 
as before stated, amounting to over a hundred in a flock, 
and in former times probably as many more. Although 
the main body, however, leave us thus early in the 
autumn, stragglers are not unfrequently observed during 
the winter months, and at times, when the mildness of 
the season can in no way be alleged as the cause of 
their remaining so late. Mr. Salmon, in his notes on 
this species (‘“‘ Mag. Nat. Hist.,” 1836, p. 524), alluding 
to their usual departure in October, remarks—“‘ Should 
the weather continue open a few will remain to a much 
later period,” and instances his having “started one as 
late as the 9th of December, in the autumn of 1834,” 
Mr. Lubbock also says, “It stays very late before it 
migrates ; in mild seasons to the very end of November, 
and even into December.” On the 15th of December, 
1846, as recorded by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher (‘Zoolo- 
gist,” 1847, p. 1601), a single bird was killed at Ludham, 
and the following instances have since come under my 
own notice :— 
1851. On December 4th, during severe frost and 
snow, a great-plover, in good condition, was shot at 
Potter Heigham. 
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