VOL. XV.] NOTES. 295 



SOME WINTER VISITORS TO GREAT YARMOUTH, 



1921-22. 

 The advent of spring seems to be a convenient time at which 

 to record some of the less common visitors that have passed 

 through my hands from Great Yarmouth and its vicinity 

 during the winter months. The first spell of cold on the 

 CcMitinent ]:)rought the Waxwings {Bonihycilla f^ayriilns), the 

 first being shot on November gth, a Little Auk {Alle allc) 

 came in the same day. and on the i6th I received three more 

 Waxwings. On the 17th, an adult female Little Gull (Larits 

 minutiis) was shot near the harbour mouth, and on the 21st 

 a Storm-Petrel {Hydrobates pelagiais) was picked up exhausted 

 on the North Beach. On the 23rd, a Barnacle-Goose {Branta 

 leitcopsis). on the 24th six more Waxwings, and on the 29th 

 two more were brought in. None of these upon dissection 

 had suffered privation, on the contrary, all were fat and in 

 fair condition and their stomachs well filled with berries. 

 With a single exception, all were immature birds. 



December loth brought a Bean-Goose {Anser fahalis), a 

 male in fair condition, weighing 7 lbs. A female Sanderling 

 {Crocethia alba), in its delicate ash-grey plumage, was brought 

 in on the 28th and a male Pink-footed Goose {A. brachyrhyn- 

 chits) on the 2Qth. 



On January 7th, I received another Little Auk, very thin 

 and with an empty stomach ; on the nth, an adult male 

 Puffin {Fratcrcnla arctica) was picked up starved and exhausted, 

 on the I2th an adult male Common Scoter [Oidcmia n. nigra) 

 in the same condition, on the 17th another, on the 21st a 

 Black-throated Diver (Colymbus arcticus) also in very poor 

 condition, and on the 24th an adult male Smew {M. albellus). 



The intense cold was now telling severeh' upon the marine 

 species, and amongst many specimens, brought in between 

 February ist and i8th, were an immature female White- 

 fronted Goose {A. albifrons), another male and three female 

 Smews, a second Black-throated Diver, two Black-necked 

 Grebes {Podiceps n. nigricollis), two Red-necked Grebes 

 iP. g. griscigena), a Tufted Duck {Nyroca fuligida), two more 

 Common Scoters, a Golden-Eye {Buccphala c. clangiila). 

 two Red-breasted Mergansers (M. serralor), three male Sheld- 

 Ducks {Tadorna tadorna) and two female Goosanders (M. 

 merganser), all of them showing upon dissection evidence of 

 having suffered great privation. The Goosanders, Smews 

 and Mergansers were apparently recovering their condition, 

 having evidently found fresh water with plenty of small 

 fish to prev upon, and all of them had full stomachs. I took 



