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but in what year I am not certain, was also procured at 

 Sherringham ; and an adult male, in Mr. Newcome's col- 

 lection at Feltwell, was shot at Yarmouth in November, 

 1850. Next in order of date are two fine specimens, 

 killed on Blakeney beach, near the Preventive station, 

 about the first week in March, 1855. These were 

 brought in the flesh to the Rev. E. W. Dowell, of 

 Dunton, who presented one to the Earl of Leicester, 

 and retained the other in his own collection. Both, I 

 believe, were male birds, Lord Leicester's certainly was, 

 as I examined it at the time when sent to be preserved 

 in Norwich. A farther interval of seven years now 

 elapsed, without any more examples being observed 

 in this district, when in the winter of 1861-62, 

 between the first week in November and the llth of 

 January, no less than five were obtained at Yarmouth, 

 Sherringham, and Blakeney; and about the 24th of 

 April, a sixth, also on the coast, at Yarmouth. Of these 

 birds, which, singularly enough proved to be all males, 

 the first was killed at Yarmouth on the 7th of November; 

 the second at Sherringham on the 9th; the third near 

 Yarmouth (belonging to the Rev. C. J. Lucas, of Burgh,) 

 on the 12th; and two more at Blakeney (I believe in the 

 possession of Mr.Upcher, of Sherringham,) on the llth of 

 January, 1862. I was unable to ascertain at the time how 

 many were seen on each occasion, or whether these were 

 the only ones observed, but most probably there were 

 others which escaped destruction; and as these birds were 

 performing a southward migration, it is most probable 

 that the specimens described by Mr. J. D. Rowley, as 

 netted at Brighton (three males) on the 15th and 16th 

 of November (Ibis, 1862, p. 88), were a remnant 

 of the same flock, thinned on their passage down our 

 eastern coast. Very severe gales had visited us for some 

 days just previous to the appearance of the three 

 November birds, and several little auks were picked up 



