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to the same spot with Colonel Cooper on the loth they 

 had gone, so they would only have been on passage. Dr. 

 Long believes that no eggs were laid on any of the Broads 

 or marshes. 



Wood-Sandpiper [Tringa glareola). 



This Sandpiper was noticed both on its spring and autumn 

 passage. On the former it seems to prefer the larger Broads ; 

 on the latter the sea coast. 



Sandwich Tern [Sterna s. sandvicensis). 



Nidificalion. — On May 29th the Naturalists' Society was 

 invited to meet Professor Oliver at the Nature Reserve, 

 Blakeney Point. There was a large attendance of members 

 and their friends, who inspected such local rarities as the 

 C>3'ster Plant, Suacda fructicosa, etc., and a Sandwich Tern's 

 nest containing one egg. I did not see the nest, but learn 

 from Mr. Clifford Borrer that it was a mere scrape in the 

 sand, fortunately high enough on the ridge to escape the 

 high tides, which have so often been destructive to this Tern 

 settlement. If flying about with a fish in its mouth is a proof 

 of having young ones, this fine Tern bred here long ago 

 [Zoologist, 1896, p. 174), 



Larid,^:. 



Starving Sca-Gidls. — The principal passage of Gulls, Lams 

 argentatns, L. marimis and L. fuscus, which, as has been 

 shown, is so intimately connected with the success or failure 

 of the herring fishery, was registered by Mr. Cole as taking 

 place this j^ear at Cromer on October i8th, 19th and 21st. 

 Many of the Black-backs and Herring-Gulls following the 

 herring " drifters " for what they could get, appear to have 

 been ravenous with hunger ; Mr. Harrison Matthews, who was 

 at sea on a trawler, describes the extraordinary scrambles 

 for fish refuse thrown overboard from time to time. 



KiTTiWAKE [Rissa tridadyla). 



In course of conversation Mr. Matthews was told by the 

 skipper of the " .Agnes Mutten " that he had seen " a pure 

 white Kitty." Neither the date nor the exact locality are 

 obtainable, but this was in all probability the bird already 

 recorded by Mr. Jourdain [B.B., XV., p. 214). Fifty per cent 

 of the Gulls which followed the trawlers were of this species, 

 and that after Christmas when most of them ought to have 

 left for the south. 



