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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 Rainham.” 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 
