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that the dead Rooks and Crows which are washed up on 

 occasions such as this are not a tithe of what fall into the 

 sea, while it is hopeless to conjecture how many hundreds of 

 thousands of Finches, Redwings, Goldcrests and Larks may 

 perish without anyone being the wiser.* 



Magpie {Pica p. pica). 



A Magpie seen by Mr. W. G. Clarke at Tilney All Saints, on 

 July 2nd, must have been a breeder, but others reported at 

 Hackford and Reepham during the autumn were migrants, as 

 also a couple at Great Melton in December. Before the war 

 they were almost extinct in Norfolk, where seventy 3'ears ago 

 they were common, yet as recently as 1875 I can remember 

 counting seven on a hedge near the sea, and on another 

 occasion in June a family party of six. 



GoLDFiNXH [Carduelis carduelis). 



The Duchess of Bedford reports a great many on Wiveton 

 marshes on September ist, flocks of from five to twentv rising 

 out of every clump of thistles, which is unusual for 5s'orfolk. 

 Lesser Redpoll {Carduelis I. cabaret). 



This little finch seems to hold its own, particiilarlv in the 

 vicinity of the Broads, where it is found to be very partial 

 to the bushes of sweet-gale, which grow luxuriantly. It is 

 sometimes paired by the middle of January, bat does not go 

 to nest before April. At Horsey Redpolls use for lining what 

 I have heard the marshmen call the fane of the gladden, but 

 perhaps it is in some cases cotton-grass. A nest in a sallow 

 examined on June 14th was beautifally lined with white 

 down, no doubt stripped from the catkins which were growing 

 hard by. 



Ortolan Bunting {Emheriza hortiilana). 



October 19th, W., i. Three seen on Lowestoft denes by 

 Mr. F. C. Cook and two the following day by another observer 

 at a locality farther north, were sufficient to mark a migration 

 of this Bunting, no longer regarded as very rare on the east 

 coast. The Ortolan has always \'isited Heligoland in large 

 numbers, so why so much doubt should formerly have been 

 thrown on British occurrences is not very plain. 



Tawny Pipit {Anthiis campestris) . 



Mr. Cook believes that he identified an example of this 



* Birds of prey are sometimes victims ; on September 24th, 1881, 

 Mr. Patterson came across three Honey-Buzzards, several Sparrow- 

 Hawks, and a Harrier. No dead Hawks were reported in 1919. 



