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larger flocks all round our shores, occasionally, after 

 stormy weather, making their appearance inland. 



About the middle of November, 1872, the coast of 

 Norfolk was visited by a terrific gale, which, com- 

 mencing on the Monday morning, raged with unabated 

 fury during the whole week. 



The first day the wind blew in furious squalls from 

 north-north-east, and from daylight till about 3 p.m. 

 a continued stream of Dunlins kept flying along the 

 shore in face of the storm, flock after flock following 

 one another in rapid succession for at least six hours. 



I was able to distinguish a few Knots, Grey 

 Plovers, Godwits, and Turnstones among them, but 

 the numbers of these birds were trifling compared with 

 the Dunlins. The following day several scattered flocks 

 were still passing north, and till the end of the week a 

 few were noticed flying in the same direction. 



Those naturalists who complain that our smaller 

 waders are on the decrease, would, I think, have had 

 their minds set at rest had they been for half-an-hour 

 only within sight of Yarmouth beach, on Monday, the 

 llth of November, 1872. 



The specimens in the case were obtained on " the 

 Fendom," a flat, sandy waste in the neigbourhood of 

 Tain, in Boss-shire, in June, 1869. 



DUNLIN. (WINTER.) 



Case 268. 



During winter these birds occasionally collect in im- 

 mense flocks, at times keeping company with Knots 

 and other waders. 



