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some of the most perfect specimens of knots, sanderlings, bartailed 

 godwits, gray plovers and turnstones, in full summer plumage, that 

 have been killed in this county for some years, were shot on 

 Breydon this spring, and passed at once into private hands, to the 

 disgust of those local collectors who, respecting the Act, notwith- 

 standing its weak points, have not encouraged local gunners to 

 break the law. 



Pied Flycatcher. — A pair were shot, about the 16th, in the 

 "North End" gardens, at Yarmouth; and, about the 25th, a fine 

 adult male at Gun ton, near Lowestoft, on the same part of the 

 coast. 



Shoveller and Garganey. — Both species have appeared, and 

 I believe nested, on Surlingham Broad this summer; of the latter 

 some three or four pairs annually breed in the surrounding marshes, 

 as well as the common teal. On the 24lh Mr. Thomas Southwell 

 observed more than one old female shoveller, with young ones, 

 amongst other wild ducks, on the meres of Wretham Heath. 



Henry Stevenson. 



10, Uuthank's Eoad, Norwich, 

 September, 1874. 



Notes on the Birds of Walney Island. 

 By Henry Duknford, Esq. 



Having spent two days on Walney Island, with a friend, at the 

 beginning of July last, I am in hopes that some of my notes will be 

 of interest to the readers of the ' Zoologist.' 



We arrived at Barrow on the evening of the 3rd of July, and 

 put up at the ' Ferry Hotel,' near the village of North Scale, where 

 I stayed last year (see Zool. S. S. 3603). The visitor here must be 

 content with rough fare, but the position of the inn will make up 

 for any drawbacks in this respect, if the object of the visit be the 

 study of some of the most beautiful of our indigenous birds. 



On the 4th we walked to the nesting-ground of Larus ridibundus 

 and Sterna cantiaca, at the north end of the island. Most of the 

 young gulls had flown, but twenty or thirty were still in the 

 nestling state, and a few eggs remained to be hatched, though we 

 could hear the chicks squeaking in the shell. Owing to the 

 extremely dry spring, and consequent scarcity of worms and 

 insect-food, there has been great mortality amongst the gulls this 



