THE ZooLoGisT—NovEMBER, 1872. 8307 
Hele shot a fine adult oystercatcher in the mere to-day, and in the evening 
a young male garganey. 15th.—One of the gunners shot three immature 
shovellers out of a party of six. These birds, as well as the garganeys and 
teal, are, I believe, bred in Norfolk. 17th.—I had two turnstones brought 
me to-day, one an adult male, the other immature. 18th.—Saw several 
greenshanks. 22nd.—A friend who was shooting with me to-day killed a 
sanderling, a bird of the year. 24th.—To-day I was offered two young 
shovellers and a knot. 29th.—Shot a greenshank and two immature ruffs. 
The latter are now by no means uncommon in the marshes, and are easily 
recognized by their flight, which much more resembles the easy, gliding 
movements of a tern than the rapid flight of the generality of waders. 
September 6th.—Saw the first flock of knots, all apparently young birds. 
7th.—Shot a greenshank, and saw several more. The peculiar shrill 
whistle of this bird can be heard at an immense distance. 9th.—Shota — 
curlew sandpiper from a flock of five. All the terns have left us by this 
time. 14th.—To-day I was lucky enough to shoot a pectoral sandpiper in 
the North Mere. Three birds skimmed past me within a longish shot, and 
I shot at them and killed this one, thinking that they were curlew 
sandpipers. It is evidently a bird of the year, from the light-coloured 
margins to the feathers; the sex I could not ascertain with certainty, 
owing to the shot-marks. The legs and base of lower mandible were light 
yellowish brown, and irides dark brown; the body was loaded with fat. 
The wind had been blowing rather freely from the West for some days, 
and I fancy that this bird must have been blown over to the coast of 
Norway or Iceland, and then have joined a flock of knots or curlew sand- 
pipers on their way southward. ‘This is the second recorded occurrence of 
_ the pectoral sandpiper in Suffolk (Myr. Hele has one, which he shot in the 
same place, Oct. 1870); but I have no doubt that it is a species often 
overlooked, and that, if all the so-called “‘ ox-birds” which are killed on the 
Norfolk and Suffolk coast could be examined, very few years would pass 
without one or two being met with. 16th.—I put up two little stints to-day, 
and shot one of them. I saw a solitary shell-duck in the mere, but could not 
getashot at him. I think, considering the first-rate condition of the meres 
from the wet weather, we have not had so many waders as usual. I have not 
been able to meet with the wood sandpiper at all, though I have looked for 
it most carefully. The curlew sandpiper, knot, turnstone, little stint, and 
bartailed godwit have only appeared very sparingly. Curlews and whimbrel 
are tolerably abundant on the river. Green sandpipers are generally to be 
seen about the ditches, and, as before mentioned, duck, teal, &c., have been 
rather plentiful—J. G. Tuck ; Tostock House, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 
September 21, 1872. 
Ornithological Notes from the Neighbourhood of Southwold, Suffolk.— 
Heron.—August 5th. I procured a young bird up the river to-day, and 
