2980 THE ZooLocist— Marcu, 1872. 
a small plantation. The peregrine dashed through the tops of the 
fir trees at the pigeons, and was killed in the act. An immature 
male was shot near Yarmouth about the 20th. 
Liltle Gull.—A young bird was killed on Horsey Mere on the 
21st, and most probably others have appeared off the coast, though 
not driven in by stress of weather. Even in its immature dress it 
had a rich rosy tint on the breast-feathers. 
Waxwing.—A single adult male, with seven wax tips to each 
wing, was shot at Burgh, near Yarmouth, about the 23rd—the 
only one, this winter, that has come into our birdstuffer’s hands. 
Glaucous Gull.— An immature bird was seen in Leadenhall 
Market on the 24th, by Mr. J. H. Gurney, said to have been sent 
from Yarmouth. 
Richardson’s Skua.—On the same date as above Mr. Gurney 
also saw, in Leadenhall Market, a nearly adult example of this 
skua, killed off Yarmouth. 
Pomarine Skua.—On the 25th an immature specimen was shot 
at Yarmouth and sent to Norwich the same evening. A somewhat 
older bird was killed, quite inland, near Hingham, about the 18th. 
Redbreasted Merganser.—On the 28th an adult female in Norwich 
Market. 
Merlin.—An adult female shot on the 21st. 
Goosander.—November 2. A male shot near Lynn. 
“ Paget's” Pochard.—During the early and severe frost that 
occurred at the beginning of this month, when even the waters of 
our largest and deepest broads were “laid” across, a specimen of 
this wild hybrid between the white-eyed pochard (Fuligula nyroca) 
and the common pochard (F. ferina) was killed, amongst a number 
of “cripples,” on Hickling Broad, on the 13th, and two similar 
birds are said to have been seen at the same time. This specimen 
proved to be a male, on dissection, as were the two previous 
examples killed in this county (an immature male at Rollesby on 
the 27th of February, 1845, and an adult male at Little Waxham 
on the 24th of February, 1859). The present bird, in nearly adult 
plumage, resembles the Waxham specimen, and, like both the 
previous ones, more resembles the Nyroca duck in form and colour 
than the pochard, a rich chestnut predominating upon the head, 
neck and breast, with an entire absence of black. When fresh 
killed the eyes were white, with a slight tinge of lemon-yellow. 
For a notice of the two previous Norfolk specimens, of two 
