164 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



was useless to search ; and the seventh, after having* 

 for some minutes complacently watched the slaughter 

 of his companions, took his departure without offering 

 a chance. 



On the following days there were again small flocks 

 on the Broads, those seen latest appearing to he 

 younger birds, their breasts being strongly marked 

 with white.* While the weather was cold and windy 

 they pursued their course straight away to the north- 

 east ; those, however, that were seen, when the sun 

 had brought out the insects and Sand Martins, 

 remained for some hours hawking over the water. 



I learned from the keeper that on three or four 

 consecutive days before I fell in with the first flight 

 he had observed some small parties of "Daws"t 

 that he never remembered to have seen before. These 

 were probably birds of the same species. 



Three were also noticed on Breydon mud-flats, 

 about the same time, by one of the gunners who had 

 seen the birds I had obtainedthere a couple of years 

 previously. 



It would appear that several parties of these Terns 

 must have continued passing across the east of 

 Norfolk for about a week during the latter end of the 

 month. 



The specimens in the case were shot on Hickling 

 Broad on the 28th of May, 1873. 



* In the immature bird the breast is white. 



t The natives of this locality style the whole of the Tern 

 family "Daws;" the common or Arctic ^being the "White," 

 and the Black the " Blue Daw." 



