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channel, and on the 4th they were still there (Patterson), 
battling against a heavy snow-storm, with Coots clambering 
over the bank to take refuge from the drift-ice. March 
always sees them returning to our inland waters, unless the 
weather be something very exceptional; Dr. Long counted 
twenty Grebes on South Walsham Broad on April 8th, 
nearly all in pairs. 
Woop-Picron (Columba p. palumbus). 
A great flock of Wood-Pigeons in four battalions was seen 
by Mr. Doughty on January 5th flying in from the sea at 
Gorleston : wind, W.N.W. 2. rain and snow. October 9th.— 
The first band of autumn arrivals observed near Beccles by 
Mr. Smalley. 
StocK-DoveE (Columba cnas). 
On February 16th eight half-starved Stock-doves + ven- 
tured on to the ice of a small pond, in quest of maize thrown — 
to the Ducks. a bold proceeding, the more so as the pond was 
in a frequented garden ; but it was in a neighbourhood where 
this little Pigeon has always been common. In this part of 
Norio!k it is not unusual to come across a dead Stock-dove, 
always in good feather, unruffled, and without any sign of 
disease in the throat or elsewhere. Has this been remarked 
by others ? It cannot be the result of fighting or the plumage — 
would be ruffled. 
At Blakeney they use the rabbit-hcles on the sandhills tor 
breeding-places, but nearer Norwich any large hole. such as 
a deserted pigeon-cote, or the roof of a summer-house is 
acceptable. Tubs put up for Owls are continuaily pre- 
occupied by Stock-doves, which is somewhat annoying to 
Owl protectors. 
SToONE-CuRLEW (Burhinus @. cedicnemus).. 
May 2?5th—A nest containing the customary two ege~ + (if 
the slight depression in the bracken lined with rabbit’s 
droppings can be called a nest) within four miles of Norwich, 
and within twenty yards of where the same pair hatched last 
year (|. H Walter) I understand the young came off on 
June Yth and 10th; last year Mr. Walter registered tteir 
hatching on June 17th. 
GREEN SANDPIPER (T'ringa ochropus). 
The probability of the Green Sandpiper having nested in 
Norfo!k was cmphasised in last year’s ““ Notes” (Brimsh 

