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observed several more. They are decidedly more numerous here and 
tamer than usual this year: perhaps the absence of guns during the last 
four months has given them confidence. 19th. About 6 a.m. I observed 
fifteen birds, all fishing from a mud bank at low water; these birds, when 
disturbed, all flew to Lord Stradbrooke’s heronry at Henham. 
Curlew.—Birds of the year appear to keep together in large flocks, and 
to frequent the meadows and pasture-lands more than the mud-flats; old 
birds are generally to be met with about the latter locality. We procured 
six out of the same flock at different dates this month, all young birds, but 
differing vastly as regards size, some having beaks quite three inches longer 
than others: I suspect this represents the difference of sex. 
Dunlin Sandpiper—August 10th. To-day we procured sixteen at 
Thorpemere, chiefly young birds. This species has been extremely scarce 
at Southwold this month: where last year in a week I noticed some 
hundreds, this year I have not seen more than two dozen. 
Greenshank.—August 12th. Observed five up the river. 23rd. Two 
more seen, extremely wary: their note is very similar to a redshank’s. 
Reeve.—August 15th. I procured a very good specimen to-day, standing in 
a pool of water at the back of the beach near Dunwick—a bird of the year. 
Sanderling—August 15th. Procured five, all in winter plumage. 
27th. Obtained four more: these birds and dunlins also appear tamer in 
windy weather. Ido not remember ever having seen sanderlings here in 
former years. 
Wild Goose—August 22nd. A friend to-day observed some geese flying 
south-east, very high. 
Wild Duck.—August 24th. An old female I shot to-day weighed two 
pounds and three-quarters. 
Goosander.—August 19th. Observed a pair of either these birds or 
mergansers on the mud-flats up the river, about six o'clock this morning. 
Arctic Tern.—August 9th. Visiting Orford to-day I found these birds 
very numerous on the shingle about the High Light, near the Ness. They 
had evidently been breeding here, as I procured a young bird not out of its 
downy state; beak, § inch; tarsus, } inch: also a mature bird, curiously 
enough with only one foot ; it had lost the other one just above the web; it 
had possibly been shot, or bitten off by some fish while pursuing its daily 
avocations ; the bone was entirely healed over. 
Dusky Redshank.—September 7th. My brother obtained two birds of the 
year to-day at one shot: he observed them fly up the river and alight on 
the mud-flats, and he secured them from behind the wall without difficulty : 
they were tamer than common redshanks usually are. 
Coots——September 18th. This evening, about dusk, my brother, while 
waiting for ducks, observed ten coots swimming on the sea, a short distance 
from land. ‘They were near a broad much frequented by wild-fowl, and the 
