THE ZooLocist—May, 1872. 3047 
Early Spring.—The effects of the unusually mild weather that 
has characterized the present month have been shown both in 
forward vegetation and the pairing and nesting of birds. Nests 
and eggs of thrushes, blackbirds, hedgesparrows and robins are 
reported from various parts of the county. 
Waxwing.—A single specimen was killed in this county towards 
the end of February. A fine adult male, with six and eight wax 
tags on the wings. 
Marcu. 
Bewick’s Swan.—An adult bird, shot at Sutton, was offered for 
sale in Norwich on the 11th. 
Spotted Rail.—An early migrant of this species was picked up 
on the 8th, under the telegraph wires. The wire is about twenty- 
five feet above the ground, and there is no mere or stream in the 
vicinity. It was brought to me as a “ quail,” but whether that can 
be regarded as any corroboration of the name (provincial) given for 
it in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk’ on Mr. Girdlestone’s authority (vol. ii. 
p- 394, note) I do not know. One occasionally sees black-faced 
specimens of this crake; as an instance of which may be mentioned 
the picture in Hunt’s ‘ British Birds,’ which only wants the black 
carrying down the fore-neck to convert it into a Carolina crake, a 
species which has occurred at Newbury, and of which I have a 
specimen said to have been killed in the South of France.—G. 
Mr. T. E. Gunn received two for preservation on the 18th. 
- Peewit.—On Good Friday two “nests” of three eggs and one 
of two were found at Hempstead.—G. 
Wheatear.—First seen on the 28th, on the lighthouse hills.—@. 
Robin.—On the 4th I watched a robin building in the public 
road. Having her nest examined probably made her desert; at 
any rate she left it three weeks. On the 24th, to my surprise, I 
saw her on, and the next day there were eggs.—G. 
Thrush.—The thrushes’ eggs found on the 28th of February 
were hatched on the 15th. On the 19th there were only two in 
the nest, so I suppose the other two eggs were bad, and had been 
removed by the old bird, who sat very high, even with that small 
family. The ‘Norfolk Chronicle’ of March 30th, says: “A nest 
containing young thrushes, full feathered, was found last week in a 
hedge between Brome and Eye.”—G. 
Cromer Lighthouse——On the Ist twenty-eight starlings and 
