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plumage, two of which turned out to be bridled ones. They had 
been sent up from Cromer, and were shot some few miles out at sea, 
off that portion of the coast. Nothing can convince me that the so- 
called bridled guillemot is a species after the evidence adduced by 
Muller in his ‘ Bird-fauna of the Feroes’ (‘ Ibis,’ vol. v., p. 469), 
and by Mr. Harvie-Brown (Gray’s ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ 
p. 426).—G. 
FEBRUARY. 
Great Crested Grebe.—On the Ist some birds shot at Weybourne 
were sent in to Cromer to be cut up. A friend brought me one, 
which was a fine old razorbill,—a species which has been unusually 
abundant,—and the foot of another, which I immediately recognized 
as a great crested grebe’s.—G. 
Shorteared Owl.—This species has been unusually plentiful. 
One birdstuffer in Norwich received eight, in about ten days’ time, 
during the present month. 
Peregrine Falcon.—-Feb. 2. As the keeper at Hempstead (near 
Holt) was standing near the decoy pond, no longer used as such, 
a bird of this species flew past, and was shot by him. It is rather 
a curious coincidence that on the Ist of December, 1865, he shot 
one in just the same place. The next morning he observed a 
second strike at a coot which was swimming on the Selbrigg pond. 
The coot dived, and the bird flew into a tree. The one he 
obtained was a female, beginning to assume the adult plumage. 
Wood Pigeon.—-Feb 4. A white one was seen at Keswick, and 
since at Hethersett, where some one is reported to have offered a 
sovereign for it.—G. 
Blackbird.—Feb. 5. A blackbird’s nest with three eggs was taken 
at Southrepps. The first egg was reported to have been laid on the 
last day of January.—G. 
Wood Lark.—Feb. 21. Mr. Upcher reports wood larks in full 
song at Feltwell, near Brandon.—G. 
Thrush.—Feb. 28. Saw a nest with four eggs in the garden at 
Northrepps.—G. 
Woodcock.—About the middle of this month these birds, which 
had been extremely scarce during the autumn and winter, were met 
with in various localities. Possibly an early return flight, owing 
to the extreme mildness of the weather. 
Smew.—A fine adult female was killed about the 24th, but wild- 
fowl of all kinds have been extremely scarce. 
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