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St. John's College, Cambridge, also killed three at Hunstanton the 

 same week, a male and female adult and an immature male, and 

 some eighteen or twenty were seen. Mr. Baker, although too late 

 to procure any himself, believes that he saw two or three flying 

 inland when travelling by rail to Hunstanton on the 19lh. 



On the 12th I received an adult male and a male in immature 

 plumage, from Sallhouse, both shot on the previous day, and 

 another adult male was killed at the same place on the 10th. On 

 the 12th, also, Mr. J. J. Winter, of Norwich, shot an adult male on 

 Cromer beach, the wind, as he tells me, blowing a heavy gale at the 

 time, and many large gulls were driven in by the storm, but no 

 more little gulls appeared amongst them. On the 14th Mr. H. 

 Upcher received an adult male from Cley, and on the 15th an 

 immature female from Salthouse; and the same day an adult 

 female from Sherringham beach. A pair now in my collection, 

 male and female, adult, were also killed at Hasborough on the 

 I5th. 



At Yarmouth the large number procured were nearly all killed 

 between the 12th and 14lh, but, the market being somewhat 

 glutted, they were still offered for sale up to the 19th and 20th. 

 As far as I could ascertain at the time, at least twenty specimens 

 were shot on the beach during the height of the gale, of which six 

 couples, all adult birds, came under my notice, and some were, 

 I believe, sent up to Leadenhall Market, where, from first to last, 

 about thirty specimens were received, chiefly from the Eastern 

 Counties. A pair of adult birds, killed at Hickling, near Yar- 

 mouth, on the 17th, were the only examples, to my knowledge, 

 which in that locality were not shot on the beach. Amongst the 

 birds sent to our Norwich bird-stuffers three were from different 

 localities in Suffolk, — Wendling, Beccles and Lowestoft, — but all 

 these were amongst the latest birds killed; indeed, the last that 

 I saw in the flesh was shot on Guuton beach, near Lowestoft, by 

 Mr. Fowler's gamekeeper, on the 18th, when others were seen, 

 possibly passing further south after the storm had abated. 



Altogether, as far as one can judge from fairly reliable "hear- 

 say" evidence, over sixty specimens were killed in this county; 

 forty-two I can vouch for, having handled most of them myself; 

 and, judging from the various records in the 'Zoologist' and 

 'Field' Bridlington Bay, on the Yorkshire coast, appears to have 

 been the only other locahty in which these gulls appeared in any 



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