86 The Zoologist — February, 1866. 



Several fine bitterns have also been shot on the broads during their 

 usual autumnal migration. 



November 11. A young male hen harrier and (about the same time) 

 a roughlegged buzzard, immature, from Smallburgh. Mr. F. Hele, in 

 the ' Field' of the 11th of November, states that five of these fine birds 

 were killed at Aldborough, on the Suffolk coast, during the previous 

 fortnight. 



About this date three or four great spotted woodpeckers, killed in 

 different parts of the county, and two quails, a young bird and an old 

 female, near Cromer. 



November 19. Another immature roughlegged buzzard and two 

 more great spotted woodpeckers, sent into Norwich for preservation; 

 also a fine adult red male sparrovvhawk, not often met with at the 

 present day. 



November 23. Two adult male shovellers and one female, and a 

 fine bittern, from Ludham Broad. 



December 2. A curious pied missel thrush was shot near Norwich, 

 having the head and neck all round a somewhat dirty white, with 

 white feathers in the wing-coverts, scapulars and lower part of the 

 back : the whole of the rest of the plumage lighter than usual. 



December 5. Another bittern and an immature great northern diver, 

 sent to Norwich to be stuffed ; about the same time also a fine young 

 male peregrine was killed at Hempstead, near Holt, shot in the very 

 act of chasing a wild duck. 



December 15. Another redthroated diver, but evidently a young 

 bird : the beak small, no traces whatever of summer plumage, back 

 and shoulders much spotted with white, and the feathers of the head 

 and neck of a particularly downy texture. 



December 22. An immature common buzzard, killed at Bradfield, 

 near North Walsham, and at the same date a fine young female pere- 

 grine. On the 22nd a young female merlin at Hethersett, and on the 

 30th or 31st a splendid old male kite was shot at Martham, near 

 Yarmouth. This bird is now extremely rare in Norfolk ; indeed, the 

 last obtained, to my knowledge, in this county was trapped near Thet- 

 ford, in 1852. A large hawk, supposed to be of this species from its 

 forked tail and circling flight, had been seen on the Suffolk coast near 

 Lowestoft, about a week or so before, and is most probably the same 

 now recorded from Martham. The stomach contained only a few dark 

 feathers resembling coot's or scoter's, with a few fragments of the 

 common reed. 



