3402 The Zoologist — February, 1873. 



ounces eacli. Colonel Montagu gives the weight of the golden 

 plover as between seven and eight ounces. 



Wood Pigeon. — November 28ih. There have been for the last 

 week, and without any special attraction, several hundred wood 

 pigeons in the marshes near the coast. I believe thera to be a 

 migratory flock, as now our local birds never go down to the 

 coast, but remain about the woods and plantations. 



Jack Snipe. — December 13th. Are very scarce. I saw the first 

 to-day, and only two others since. 



Bullfinch. — Bullfinches, all through the autumn, have been 

 extremely numerous. We see thera nearly in every hedgerow. 



John Cordeaux. 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 

 December 31, 1873. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. 

 By Henry Stevenson, and J. H. Gurney, jun., Esqrs. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 335G). 



November, 1872. 



Little Gull. — One observed by Mr. Preston at Yarmouth on 

 the 22nd.— G. 



Cromer Lighthouse. — On the 4lh five starlings ; S.W.,rain ; and 

 one blackbird. On the 5lh a goldcrest; W.S.W., gloomy. On the 

 10th three starlings ; S., rain. On the 27th a goldcrest; S.W, — G. 



Gray Shrike. — The 'Eastern Weekly Press' slates that one was 

 caught on the 19th, on the north denes, Yarmouth, irt a bird- 

 catcher's net. — G. 



Mealy Bedpoll. — A female was netted at Hethersett, near Nor- 

 wich, on the 19th, with several lesser redpolls. One of the latter, 

 with the exception of the red patch, had the whole head and neck 

 white. 



Woodcock. — This is another very poor season for woodcocks. — G. 



Puffin. — A young bird killed at Yarmouth about the 19th. 



Redlhrouted Diver. — An immature bird killed on Rockland 

 Broad on the 16th. 



Kingfishers. — Although free from frost to the present time, more 

 than a dozen of these birds have been brought in lately to the 

 Norwich birdstuffers. 



