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on the Ist, and an adult male on the 22ad ; also a pair of pintails, at 

 Babingley, on the 1st. 



Ruddfi Sheldrake. — An adult male shot at Snettisham, on the 26th, 

 as recorded in the 'Field,' &c., at the time, proved to be a foreign 

 specimen escaped from confinement. 



Merlin. — An adult male was caught alive in a singular manner, on 

 the 14th, at Swardestone, near Norwich. The hawk was seen by a lad 

 to dash after a small bird, which was flying towards an oak tree for 

 safety. Oddly enough the merlin so entangled itself in the branches, 

 some twenty feet from the ground, that the boy climbed up and 

 caught it, in spile of its determined attacks upon his fingers. The 

 bird, only slightly injured in the wing, is still alive. 



April. 



Redthroated Direr. — A fine adult bird, with good red throat, was 

 shot about the 2nd of this month. 



Shoveller Duck. — An adult pair, but unusually small, were shot 

 near Lvnn, on the 19th. 



Montagu's Harrier. — An adult female killed at Norihrepps, near 

 Cromer, on the 25th. 



May. 



Blacklailed Godwit. — An immature bird killed at Hickling on 



the 8th. 



Crane. — To the interesting account, by Mr. J. EI. Gurney, jun. 

 (S. S. 1841), of the cranes killed this spring in Norfolk and other 

 localities, I need only add, that the bird killed in Manhara salt- 

 marshes, on the 25th of May, proved to be a young female. The 

 man who captured it kept it in confinement till the 5lh of June, when 

 it died and was stuffed for the Lynn Museum. It was fed on whelks, 

 worms and mussels. The young male shot at South Pickenham, on 

 the 4th of June, had several white worms, about three inches long, in 

 the stomach ; also pebbles and small white MoUusca, about the size of 



peas. 



Hook. — A pair of rooks from a small colony which nest in the trees 

 of Swaffham church-yard attempted to build on a gurgoile, or stone- 

 head, projecting under the eaves on one side of the church, but the 

 sticks and other materials were constantly stolen by their com- 

 panions, and they gave up the attempt. This strikes me as a very 

 unusual circumstance with this species. 



