9808 Birds. 



Mr. J. D. Hoy. The second, in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection, was 

 also procured near Yarmouth, on the 30lh of September, 1853. 



September 24. A fine adult gannet, killed on Breydon, — a rather 

 unusual event, as, except in stormy weather, these birds keep out in 

 the " Roads," more particularly the old ones. 



On the 23rd a fine young common buzzard was shot at Beeston, 

 near Norwich. 



H. Stevenson. 



Norwich, September 30, 1865. 



Ornithological Notes from Went Sussex. 

 By W. Jeffery, jun., Esq. 



(Continued from p. 9718.) 



August, 1865. 



Blackheaded Gull. — Saw a bird of this species on the 6th, which to 

 all appearances had not conmienced the autumnal moult. 



Tree Pipit and Rays Waytail. — These birds have been more 

 frequently heard than seen, passing over (generally in a southerly 

 direction) since about the end of the first week in August, not in flock, 

 but usually two or three together. About the 22ud, however, the 

 wagtails seemed to be rather more numerous for a day or two, as many 

 as from ten to twenty being seen together. I shot four on the 22nd, 

 all very different in appearance from the richly coloured males which 

 pass this way in the spring of the year. I think at least three of these 

 were birds of the year, the fourth may have been an old female. 



Pied WaijtaU — During the latter part of the month (from about the 

 14th) pied wagtails have been very numerous on pastures, road-side 

 commons, and other such places where cattle are to be found. They 

 do not stay long in one place, but keep passing on. As a rule they 

 are not so shy, nor do they fly so high, nor so far at a time, as the Ray's 

 wagtail and tree pipit, merely passing from one meadow to the next, 

 and so on. I have not as yet been able to detect a single specimen of 

 the while wagtail amongst the numbers of the common species which 

 pass this way every spring and autumn, though Captain Knox, in his 

 ' Systematic Catalogue,' tells us that it has occasionally been obtained 

 in Sussex. 



Wood Sandjiiper. — One killed in or near Pagham Harbour, on the 

 15th, is now in my collection. This is a rare bird in Sussex j Captain 



