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years since my father was the first to draw attention to this 

 species being a migrant.* 



Golden-crested Wren {Regitliis regnlus). 

 Though the British Goldcrests were greatly thinned by the 

 tremendous frost on February 2nd, 1917, the number of 

 autumn migrants shows very little diminution, if we may 

 judge from what was seen in Lincolnshire by Mr. Caton- 

 Haigh on October 9th, loth, nth and 12th, and simultaneously 

 by several Norfolk observers. Many hundreds of them made 

 land at Sheringham, Trimmingham, Mundesley, Caister and 

 Yarmouth. At Yarmouth Mr. Saunders reckoned up little 

 parties of three, five and six disporting in the bushes, where 

 ten at least were killed by prowling cats, and picked up by 

 the park-keeper (A. Patterson). Still more were seen by 

 Dr. Riviere, and at sea by the master of the " Cromer Knoll," 

 while it would appear that the migration even extended to 

 Switzerland.t 



Great Grey Shrike [Lanins e. excubitor). 

 One of my correspondents, who is a very smart observer, 

 reports several near the coast in November, and about that 

 time Mr. Gunn had one from Wells. They generally seem 

 to follow the line of the sea, but Norfolk does not get these 

 handsome Shrikes every year. 



Waxwing {Bomhycilla garruhts). 

 Nine Waxwings were seen on December i8th by Mr. 

 Upcher feeding on haws at Sheringham, and a month later 

 they were still there. Another was picked up at South 

 Walsham, and later a couple were seen b}^ Dr. Long in a 

 garden at Norwich ; two were also reported from Hethel 

 (H. Halls), and a flock of twelve from near Yarmouth (A. 

 Patterson). The last visitation of importance was in 1913-14. 



Wood-Warbler {Phylloscopus s. sihilatrix). 

 Identified by Mr. W. G. Clarke at Ringmere on April i8th. 



Black-bellied Dipper {Cincliis c. cinclus). 

 Mr. Davey reports one at the end of February on the 

 Aldborough stream, where it stayed for some time, generally 

 roosting on the fly-wheel of the mill engine. In addition 

 to the two recorded last year, there was one on the little 

 stream at Hempstead. All the Norfolk Dippers seem to be 

 of the Scandinavian race, although one or two have shown 



* Zoologist, 1848, p. 2071. 



t Nos Oiseaux, Bulletin de al Sociele Romande, 1920, p. 16. 



