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30th of the same month. Prom the total absence, 

 therefore, of specimens during the autumn, although 

 stated by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher to have occurred 

 at that season as well, it would seem that of late years, 

 at least, their course has been somewhat varied on their 

 southward migration. Mr. A. Newton tells me, that a 

 bird, which could hardly have been of any other species 

 than this, was seen by his brother Edward, at Elvedeii, 

 about three miles from the borders of Norfolk, on the 30th 

 of April, 1859. The same year, on the 3rd of May, a 

 male bird was killed at Hickling, and one at Hunstanton 

 about the same date, which is preserved at the Hall, in 

 the late Mr. L'Estrange's collection ; and on the 18th, a 

 pair which would probably have bred there, were shot at 

 Beeston, near Cromer. Probably the last obtained in 

 this county was killed near Foulsham on the 14th May, 

 1861. The same remarks as to time of appearance and 

 numbers, apply equally to the north-eastern portions of 

 the Suffolk coast, where at Gunton, near Lowestoffc, an 

 old male and a young female were shot during the first 

 week of May, 1862. Sir Wm. Hooker, in his M.S. 

 before referred to, also notices a pair killed at Gunton 

 on the 29th April, 1813 ; and the late Mr. Leathes, of 

 Herringfleet, once showed Mr. Gurney a hole in a small 

 tree, standing by the side of Fritton broad, in which 

 a pair of these birds were said to have nested some 

 years ago. 



CINCLUS AQUATICUS, Bechst. 

 COMMON DIPPEE. 



The Water Ouzel can be considered only as an 

 accidental visitant to this county, the few specimens 

 obtained from time to time appearing between the months 



