Tue ZooLocist—May, 1872. $045 
Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. 
By Henry Stevenson, Esq., and J. H. Gurney, Jun., Esq. 
(Continued from Zool. S. S. 2984.) 
January, 1872. 
French Partridge.—Jan. 15. Of fifteen partridges shot on Mr. 
Buxton’s land at Trimmingham, thirteen were Frenchmen. You 
always get most Frenchmen “ driving,’ and since this system of 
shooting has come into use, these much-maligned birds have 
become far more popular.—G. 
Robin.—Jan. 16. The fine day tempted three robins ee song, 
and since then numbers have been heard in all directions round 
Cromer.—G. 
Longeared Owl.—Jan. 17. Hewitt, the Trimmingham keeper, 
showed me six sitting in a small Scotch fir (as well as two tawny 
owls in another Scotch fir touching it, which I believe had strayed 
from my own plantations, where there were a pair up to the 10th). 
I should not suppose these were a family party, although three 
nests, two of five and one of six, were hatched out last year, as 
the keeper says they bred in April, and similar congregations have 
been observed in Sussex in March (cf. Zool. pp. 88, 166), which one 
would naturally expect to have been migratory. For some months 
past he had seldom passed the tree without seeing four, and on 
one occasion six. The owner does not allow them to be destroyed, 
and it would be a good thing if other game-preservers would 
imitate him. By putting boughs over his coops the keeper 
manages to protect the young pheasants, and he assured me that 
he lost very few. He informed me that the owls preferred Scotch 
firs to sit in, but silver firs to nest in.—G. 
Shorteared Owl.—Some four or five specimens were brought 
into Norwich to be stuffed about the middle of this month. 
Kittiwake.—Jan. 31. An old and a young kittiwake in Norwich 
market. The major part of these birds migrate in the winter, and 
as there are no breeding-places in Norfolk the gulls generally (with 
the exception of the blackheaded) are comparatively scarce in 
summer.— G. 
Whooper.—About the middle of this month a single wild swan 
of this species was brought to Norwich for sale. 
Bridled Guillemot.—Jan. 31. I saw in the market, together 
with some old and young razorbills, three guillemots in winter 
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