S716 The Zoologist — October, 1873. 



during a prevalence of great heat. If swallows and their kindred 

 fly low, with impending showers, for their insect prey, do they 

 ascend in pursuit of the same during scorching heat ? 



Little Gull.— A very young bird, judging by the dark markings 

 on the head, back and wings, was shot near Yarmouth, about 

 the 25th. 



Temmiiick's Stint. — Mr. Gurney informs me that a specimen of 

 this stint, a young male of the year, was shot at Hickling on the 

 29th, where another (two seen at that time) had been killed about 

 a week previously. 



Terns. — Both at Yarmouth and Lowestoft a considerable number 

 of these birds, chiefly common terns, have been seen fishing off the 

 coast; but several specimens of the arctic tern have been sent to 

 Norwich for preservation lately. 



Razorbill and Guillemot. — Said to be very plentiful in the 

 " Roads" this autumn off the Yarmouth coast. At Lowestoft I saw 

 lately two guillemots, plucked and dressed like chickens, at a 

 poulterer's shop. I wonder what name they would be sold by if to 

 other than fishermen's wives? 



Sparrowhawk. — Early in the morning of the 31st a young male 

 of this species was caught inside a covered fowls' yard at North- 

 repps Hall, near Cromer, having, as supposed, dashed itself through 

 the top netting. The fowls were shut up, and it is probable, there- 

 fore, that two pigeons roosting in the covered yard were the objects 

 of his attack, though he seems to have been too much bewildered 

 when inside to make any hostile demonstrations. 



Henry Stevenson. 

 Norwich, September, 1873, 



Ornithological Notes from Devonshire and Cornwall. 

 By Jqhn Gatcombe, Esq. 



(Continued from S. S. 3G32;. 



July, 1873. 



2nd. There are many young wheatears on the banks of the 

 Laira. 



4tb. Again visited Wembury Cliffs, and found that some of the 

 young herring gulls were almost able to fly, although others showed 

 a considerable amount of down among their feathers, especially 

 about the head ; in some places there were three young birds 



