The Zoologist— Februari-, 1874. 3859 



in such weather on the coast are always very deceptive : the same 

 day I had a stalk after what ajjpeared nothing less than a party of 

 graylag geese, which on a nearer acquaintance were resolved into 

 hooded crows. 



Storm Petrel. — One day, about the end of the second week in 

 December, there was a storm petrel flying to and fro in the outfall 

 to the old dock at Grimsby. 



Kingjisher. — Very abundant in the marshes since October. 



Wood Pigeon. — Dec. 29th. One shot at roosting time had the 

 crop crammed with haws. 



John Cordeaux. 



Great Cotes, Ulceby, Lincolnshire. 

 Januarj- 5, 1874. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. By H. Stevenson, F.L.S. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 3710.) 



September, 1873. 



Wood Sandpiper.— Mr. J. E. Harting, when staying at Yar- 

 mouth, at the beginning of this month, shot a single bird of this 

 species, on the 6th, from the banks of the Bnre. 



Green Sandpiper.— During the same week Mr. Harling also shot 

 five green sandpipers from the marsh "dykes" about Breydon, these 

 birds being then plentiful, as they were earlier in the season. 



Waders on Breydon. — An accurate knowledge of species and 

 the help of a good glass make long odds as between the amateur 

 and professional gunner, and hence no doubt Mr. Harting's in- 

 variable success in picking up good birds on his visits to Yarmouth. 

 Besides those above recorded, I find, from notes he has kindly 

 supplied me with, that Mr. Harting procured an adult greenshank 

 on the 4th; a young blacktailed godwit, from a marsh near Breydon, 

 on the 5th, and no less than nineteen knots the same day; also 

 two pigmy curlews out of a flock on the 12th. On the 16ih he also 

 found a solitary spotted redshank feeding on the " muds," which 

 proved through the glass to have a partially black breast, but this 

 rarity escaped owing to the punt having been too heavily weighted 

 to be pushed within shot. 



Grag Phalarope.—l am indebted to Mr. Harting for one of the 

 most interesting specimens of this bird in my collection, from the 

 intermediate state of its plumage, partly summer and winter. The 

 date of its appearance, on the 12lh of this month, is unusually earlj. 



