2366 Thk Zoologist — November, 1870. 



August. 



Wood Sandpiper. — These birds, usually very rare in this county, 

 have been met with in several instances this autumn. On the 3rd a 

 bird of the year was shot in some marshes at Cley, and one or two 

 others were seen ; and on ihe 6th, near the same spot, five more were 

 killed, making the family group of two old and four young ones. At 

 Beeston, near Cromer, the week before, some thirty or forty sandpipers 

 (whether green or wood was not ascertained) frequented the margins 

 of a large duck-pond. 



Montagues Harrier. — Three immature birds of this species, but full- 

 fledged, were also shot at Hickling, on the 3rd, and sent to Mr. Gunn 

 on that date, and a fourth about three days later. These, like the 

 hen harriers, had been bred in that neighbourhood ; two proved to be 

 males, one a female, and of the fourth the sex was not noticed. 



Greenshank. — An immature female shot at Hingham, on the 11th, 

 and another at Hickling, on the 16th; another seen with the last. 

 Stomachs tilled with small aquatic insects. 



Norfolk Plover. — A male killed on the coast, at Hunstanton, on 

 the 10th. 



Dotterel. — Four shot by a shepherd at Feltwell, on the 26th. 



Skua. — An immature specimen, apparently of Richardson's skua, 

 was shot at Blakeney on the 27th. 



Great Snipe. — A female, immature, shot at East Ruston, on 

 the 31st. 



Little Stint and Reeve. — Two immature little stints and a young 

 reeve were shot at Blakeney on the 31st. 



Marsh Harrier. — An immature female, with straw-coloured head, 

 was killed at Catfield on the 30th. 



Henry Stevenson. 



Norwich, October 10, 1870. 



Erratum. — In the final paragraph of my last communicalion (S. S. 2058) for 

 Stoan read Smew. — H. S. 



Shore Larks on the Norfolk Coast in the Winter of 1869-70. 

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



In the March number of the 'Zoologist' (S. S. 2058) I recorded 

 the occurrence of five birds of this species at or near Yarmouth, 



