The Zoologist — March, 1870. 2055 



frost. Evidently the only object of the birds was to get at the grub ; 

 but I now see that as the supply becomes exhausted they have 

 commenced digging into the solid bulb, by enlarging the holes from 

 which the grubs had previously been extracted. 



Blackbird. — During the late hard frosts I observed one morning a 

 fine old male blackbird wading, snipe-like, over the mud in the centre 

 of the great main drain which intersects this parish : he was thrusting 

 his yellow bill under the water, and picking some small substance 

 from the surface of the mud. The water, owing to a mud-bank 

 having accumulated across the stream, was not more than one to two 

 inches deep at this place, which, from the number of foot-marks, had 

 evidently been much resorted to. The attraction was doubtless due 

 to the presence of the water-snail iPhysafontinalis), several of which 

 I took at this place by passing my hand over the surface. 



WJiite Partridge. — With reference to Mr. Harting's note (S. S. 



2023) on the white partridges shot in Yorkshire, I examined, a h\v 



weeks since, a partridge which was shot by a friend in the South of 



Durham, close to the Yorkshire border. He called it a " white 



partridge ; " I can best describe it, however, as a very pale variety of 



that bird, and there are distinct traces of a pale chestnut shoe on the 



breast. 



John Cordeaux. 

 Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, 



February 7, 1870. 



Errata. — " Notes from Spurn Point," Zool. S. S. 1943, line 35, /or side read tide; 



p. 1945, line 4, for Hukhorn read siinkhorn ; line 19,/or Newsund read Newsand. 



J.C. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk — September to December, 1869. 

 By Henry Stevenson, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 1913). 



September. 



Cormorant. — In the 'Zoologist' for November last (S. S. 1921), 

 Mr. Gunn recorded the occurrence of a cormorant inland, on the 1st 

 of October, on the lake at Kimberley, an immature female : I also 

 received a young bird, sex not identified, on the 22nd of September. 



Honey Buzzard. — An immature male was shot at ^Veyborne, on the 

 coast, on the 18th of September. The stomach contained the remains 

 of honeycomb and wasps. 



