The Zoologist — July, 1873. 3607 



plentiful enough a few miles inland. Is it not likely these birds 

 (like some of the rooks) were migrants. 



Nov. 14. Wind east, a very stormy day. A good many snipe 

 in the marshes, and several lots of fowl. I saw a longtailed field 

 mouse this morning among the tufts of long grass on the highest 

 part of the beach. 



Nov. 15. Observed a kingfisher on the sea-wall. For the last 

 few days a seal has been seen in the Orford river, near the quay. 



Nov. 18. A great many ducks in the flooded marshes to-day. 



Nov. 23. Shot a female goldeneye; it was in good condition, 

 but I fancy an unusually small specimen, the whole length being 

 only fifteen inches ; from the carpal joint to the end of the wing 

 seven inches and three quarters : weight one pound six ounces 

 and a half. 



Nov. 28. Lark singing. Both song thrushes and missel thrushes 

 have been singing here at intervals throughout the last week in 

 November and the first in December. 



Dec. 5. Saw a green sandpiper at Blaxhall. 



Dec. 12. Saw a few snow buntings on the beach, between 

 Aldeburgh and Sizewell, in company with some larks. 



Dec. 16. This morning I shot a landrail in a wet marsh, not far 

 from the sea ; I had observed one about a week before near the 

 same place. Saw a small flock of golden plovers. 



Dec. 19. Saw six scaup ducks on a large piece of water standing 

 on the marshes. Immense quantities of peewits and gulls (L. canus 

 and ridibundus) about the marshes. Saw a few golden plovers 

 and a kingfisher near the sea. Watched some bearded tits this 

 morning on the reed-land. I have since fallen in with them 

 several times. Every winter there are numbers of blue tits on our 

 reed-land; what food they find there to attract them in such 

 numbers I am at a loss to know. 



January, 1873. For nearly the. whole of this month we have had 

 a flock of goldeneyes on the water in the marshes. On the 3rd, 

 with the help of a glass, I counted twelve, of which three only 

 appeared to be adult males. I saw only eight on the 8th. 



Jan. 16. Immense flocks of peewits about. The water having 

 partially subsided, there is now abundance of excellent feeding- 

 ground for ducks, those spots where there are here and there a few 

 splashes left upon the marsh, and long rough grass and sedge left 

 nearly dry, being preferred. 



