146 OBSERVATIONS ON THE 



111. HERRING GULL (Larus argentatus\ and 



112. LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL (Larus fuscus). 



Birds of these species frequently wander up the valley in 

 winter, those shot being generally in immature plumage. A 

 beautiful adult Herring Gull has been recently killed at 

 Mendham. 



113. KITTIWAKE GULL (Rissa tridactyld). 



Numbers of Kittiwakes may sometimes be seen in winter 

 at Wortwell and Honiersfield when the marshes are flooded. 



114. DUSKY PETREL (Puffinus obscurus). 



Mr. Wm. Hartcup, of Bungay, has a male bird of this 

 species, which was found dead at Earsham in the spring of 

 1858. This is the only example of the Dusky Petrel known 

 to have occurred in Great Britain.! 



115. STORM PETREL (Procellaria pelagica). 



Some years ago a Storm Petrel was brought to the late 

 Mr. James Muskett, which had fallen down the chimney of a 

 cottage, at Clintergate, Redenhall, during a gale of wind. 



116. LITTLE AUK (Mergallus alle). 



More than sixty years ago a storm-driven wanderer of this 

 species was caught alive in a stackyard at Pulham. (Sheppard 

 and Whitear's Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, 

 p. 60.) 



117. * LITTLE GREBE (Podicipes fluviatilis). " Dobchick." 



The Dabchick is frequently shot on the river in winter, 

 and I think nests with us, for birds have been noticed all 

 through the summer. 



+ Mr. H. Stevenson has given an interesting account of the history of this 

 specimen, and its discovery by him after it had been lost sight of for 24 years, 

 in the Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, vol. iii., 

 pp. 467 473. To Mr. Stevenson we are primarily indebted for our illustra- 

 tion of this bird, which is reproduced with his approval from a photograph 

 taken by Messrs. Sawyer and Bird under his direction. The Dusky Petrel 

 has, with its Australian representative Puffinus a-ssimih's, an extensive 

 ocean range in both northern and southern hemispheres, but it has very 

 rarely been met with north of the Mediterranean. The only other example, 

 which has been noted near the shores of Britain, was caught alive on a vessel 

 off the southern coast of Ireland in 1853. 



