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Ring Ouzel— One shot ou the 10th, and others seen. 

 Spotted Crake. — Another specimen shot at Thorpe, near Norwich, 

 on the 2nd. 



Wood Sandpiper.— See Mr. Gunn's note (Zool. S. S. 2225). 

 Garganey.—An adult male, at Stalham, on the 12th; and another 

 from Sutton. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker.— Kn adult female shot at Wroxham, 

 on the 21st. 



R»f—A ruff and reeve were shot at Feltwell Fen, on the 9th, out 

 of a flock of fourteen or fifteen, but of which only four appeared to be 

 ruffs. 



Turtle Dove. — Extremely numerous this season in all parts of the 

 county. At Keswick and other places near Norwich I have observed 

 them busily feeding on the fallows, particularly near the fences; and 

 one which I dissected had the crop and stomach filled with the seeds 

 of plaintain, wild trefoil and persicaiy. 



Swallow and Martin. — Several of these birds, as in the spring of 

 1869, were picked up dead previous to the commencement of the hot 

 dry weather. A broadman at Surlingham tells me that on the first hot 

 night, about the second week in May, the water was so densely 

 covered with sand martins he could scarcely row without striking 

 them. They flew all round him like bees, and fed on the insects that 

 he disturbed with his oars, apparently starved into a shocking state of 

 lameness. He had never seen them in such numbers before, but 

 most of them had left by the next morning. 



Oriole. — An adult female shot at Fincham, during this month, was 

 preserved by Mr. Baker, of Cambridge. See also Mr. Gunn's notice 

 of one (Zool. S. S. 2221). 



July. 



Wood Sandpiper. — An adult pair, male and female, killed on 

 Breydon, on the 18th, and another male at Caston on the 30th. 



Spoonhill. — An example was seen at Salthouse on one or tivo 

 occasions this month. 



Hen Harrier. — Mr. Gunn received a nest of four young in the 

 down, from Hickling, on the 23rd, two of which were forwarded alive 

 to Lord Lilford, but they unfortunately died through delay on the 

 journey. Both this species and Montagu's harrier only occasionally 

 nest in Norfolk now-a-days. 



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