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to meet with a like fate, judging by the species which are 
occasionally captured.* At Holme, near Hunstanton, 
Mr. A. W. Partridge, of Thetford, has been also suc- 
cessful with these long netst (some seven feet in depth 
and raised three feet from the ground), but has there 
ranged them on the seaward side of the broad tidal 
basin, which I have before described as a favourite 
resort of the shore-birds at low water. 
From the remarks of the lighthouse-keepers on our 
coast, I believe this species may be included amongst 
those migrants which, attracted by the light of the 
lamps, are killed through contact with the plate-glass 
windows. A very intelligent man at the Lowestoft 
High Light, who had formerly been stationed at Offord- 
ness, assured me that “oxbirds” (a common name for 
the dunlin in some counties) were picked up at times 
in considerable numbers, at the foot of the Offord 
Light. Stragglers are also met with at chance times 
far inland, but their appearance in such localities is, I 
imagine, more the result of accident than choice, as a 
single bird was picked up dead under the telegraph 
wires on the 8th of February, 1860, after a severe gale 
* The following may be enumerated as having been taken 
by this means, and many of the birds being uninjured have been 
afterwards kept in confinement in the Zoological Society’s Gardens, 
London, and in Mr. Gurney’s aviaries, at Catton :—Owls, larks, 
golden and grey plovers, curlews, redshanks, bar-tailed godwits, 
woodcocks, knots, dunlins, oyster-catchers, storm petrels, shell- 
ducks, wild-ducks, wigeons, and teal, together with black-headed, 
kittiwake, common, herring, and great black-backed gulls. The 
pectoral sandpiper, described as netted by Hornigold, near Lynn, 
was, I understand, taken in this manner. 
+ A somewhat similar method is adopted at Morecambe Bay, 
as Mr. J. H. Gurney informs me, but the nets, of a like descrip- 
tion, are set on the sea-walls during dark nights. Large numbers 
of oyster-catchers are taken, but, singularly enough, no dunlins, 
although they are generally abundant on that coast. 
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