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the herd of Pink-footed Geese, which annually frequent 

 these salt marshes ; here they remained and on two occasions 

 Miss Best managed to crawl within tolerable distance and 

 obtain a good view. Mr. Caton-Haigh tells me that geese 

 have been fairly plentiful in north Lincolnshire where he 

 was lucky enough to shoot three species, getting during one 

 week — Grey Lag, White-fronted and Pink-footed. 



Anatid^. 

 On April 3rd Dr. Long saw a hundred Wigeon {A. penelope) 

 on the Wretham Meres, and on May 12th Colonel Sparrow 

 counted five or six pairs of Gadwall {A. strepcra), and fifteen 

 or twenty pairs of Tufted Ducks {Nyroca fiiligula) there, and 

 and some Shovellers [Spatula clypeata), besides finding three 

 Shovellers' nests. On the same day I saw four Shoveller 

 ducklings, only a few days old swimming with their parent in 

 a ditch near Hoveton Broad, they are a good deal commoner 

 than they used to be before they got protection. 



Fork-tailed Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). 

 One washed up at Gorleston on November 28th (C. Doughty) 

 and another seen on Barton Broad on December 5th by Mr. 

 Tracy after a gale from the north-west. On looking over 

 previous Norfolk records it appears — omitting two or three 

 which are doubtful, and others which are undated — that eight 

 of our Fork-tailed Petrels can be assigned to October, eight 

 to November, ten to December, and one to July. This last 

 is an unaccountable date, but there is no doubt about it. The 

 bird was stuffed by a taxidermist named Carter and belonged 

 to Mr. J. G. Overend, and was sold with the rest of his collection 

 in 1876. The ordinary period of their occurrence is the 

 last two months of the year, when unsettled weather is 

 supposed to drive them ashore. 



Great Crested Grebe {Podiceps c. cristatiis). 



Plenty on Filby Broad on March 7th (Patterson). 



September 27th. The Rev. M. C. Bird writes : " Whilst 

 shooting at Stalham to-day, a man at plough caught and 

 brought to us an uninjured Grebe which had, perhaps, lost 

 itself in last night's fog." The bird when found was in a 

 dry field ditch. 



Black-necked Grebe {Podiceps n. nigricollis). 

 The probability of this Grebe — ^well known to Pennant 

 as a breeder — having nested in Norfolk, which has been 

 referred to before (Vol. X., p. 241 ; XIL,p.242; XIII., p. 263) 

 is further increased by the circumstance of a pair having 

 been seen by Dr. Riviere and Col. Todd on a small Broad near 



