3862 The Zoologist — February, 1874. 



October, 1873. 



Buff-coloured Swallows. — Two buff-coloured varieties of the 

 swallow were liilled at Surlinghani in the early part of this month. 



Norfolk Plover. — I am credibly informed that about the middle 

 of this month a flock of about one hundred of these plovers was 

 seen on land at West Harling, where they breed every year, and 

 probably the resident birds had been joined by others. Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., also saw some twenty of these birds rising in twos and 

 threes from the turnips at Kelling, near Holt, on the 1st of 

 September, — another breediug-haunt on the opposite side of the 

 county. 



Lapivivg.—hhowi the 18lh Mr. Ringer tells me he saw a larger 

 number of lapwings on his heath, at West Harling, than he has 

 seen there for many years. This is probably, in some degree, the 

 effect of the new Act. 



Hooded Crow. — Mr. Gurney writes that the first flight of these 

 birds was observed at Triraingham, near Cromer, on the 9th, and 

 a single bird at Sherringham on the 10th. On the 19th, a bright 

 sunny morning, I saw a single hooded crow pass over ray garden, 

 close to Norwich, about 11 P.M., and afterwards, with a glass, 

 watched a large number, all following the same route, in numbers 

 of from six to a dozen, flying in a westerly direction. Sometimes 

 a whole group would pause and hover round in circles, and then 

 pass on like the rest, but most of them kept steadily on. We had 

 much rain and wind on the following day. 



Sea Gulls Inland. — On the 30lh, about 3 p.m., I saw seven 

 gulls, which were apparently the common gull {Lams canus), 

 passing over the city at no considerable height, a circumstance I 

 never remember to have witnessed before. 



Great Gray Shrike. — One shot on Yarmouth Denes on the 27th. 



Summer Migrants. — A female redstart seen by Mr. Gurney at 

 Trimingham on the 10th ; nightjars heard near Northrepps on the 

 6th ; Mr. Gurney saw a swallow on the 11th. 



Wigeon. — Several on the coast at Beeston, near Cromer, and 

 one shot from a pond in that parish on the 15th. 



November, 1873. 

 Snow Bunting. — When staying at Lowestoft between the lOlh 

 and 2;3rd I found a large flock of these birds nearly every morning 



