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brown ; in some cases almost a reddish brown. On the breast and 

 belly the feathers are mixed with others which are gray, finely un- 

 dulated — indeed, exactly what we see in the mallard. On the lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts the edges of the feathers have a distinct 

 dark greenish gloss. The under tail-coverts are mixed, part dark- 

 brown with a lighter edge, the rest dark bluish green. Tail uniform 

 dusky; greater and lesser wing-coverts dusky gray, with a faint 

 greenish gloss. Ten of the secondary quills with their outer webs 

 violet, purple, or bluish green, according to light ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries dusky grey. This bird rose in silence, flew rapidly, and 

 was extremely wild and shy : it was a long way out of shot when 

 first flushed ; but I marked it drop some distance down the beck, 

 where I afterwards shot it. 



September 27. First woodcock seen. 



John Cordeaux. 



Gre.it Cotes, Ulceby, Linuolnstiire, 

 September 30, L869. 



Ornitlioloffical Notes from Norfolk — January to September, 1869. 



By Henry Stevenson, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from S. S. 1496.) 



January. 



Goosander. — Between the 1st of January and the 9th of February 

 six fine birds, four males and two females, in adult plumage, were 

 killed, out of a flock of about sixteen, on Lord SuflSeld's lake at Gun- 

 ton, near Cromer. These birds usually make their appearance on the 

 water, with other wild fowl, in October or November, but are not 

 easily accessible, and seldom exceed eight or ten in number. 



Wild-fowl. — On the 30th, after a few days' severe frost, the fol- 

 lowing birds appeared for sale in the Norwich market: — two immature 

 male goldeneye ducks, two immature male smews, several fine adult 

 tufted ducks and pochards, wild duck and mallard, two immature red- 

 throated divers and about two hundred dunlins, all from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Wells and Blakeney. An adult male smew was killed at 

 Hockwold, about the same date, and another seen. 



Lit lie Gull. — An immature specimen shot at Yarmouth, about 

 the 24th. 



Ruayhlegged Buzzard. — An immature bird killed at Rollesby, on 

 the 23id. 



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