The Zoologist— May, 1871. 2601 



Eider Duck. — A fine adult female was shot at Hunstanton, in 

 company with a solitary brent goose, dining the first week in 

 January ; and a nearly adult male, at the same place, on the 9th. 

 Other immature birds or females are said to have been seen. 



Longtailed Duck. — Two adult birds, male and female, were shot 

 at Hunstanton early in January; and a fine old male, in ray own 

 collection, was killed at the same place on the 10th. 



Bewick^s Swan. — An adult bird in Leadenhall Market on the 

 7th was said to be from Yarmouth ; and an adult male was killed 

 at Hickling about the 20lh : it weighed 12^ fts. 



Hen Harrier. — An adult female was shot on the 12th, also a 

 very beautiful adult male, on the 28th, at Hickling. 



Redbreasted Merganser. — Two old females in the Norwich 

 Market on the 21st; but although adult male goosanders were 

 plentiful at this time, the old male mergansers were not procurable 

 till some weeks later, and then but ie^f. 



Shore Lark. — Seven more specimens were shot at Salthouse 

 about the 6th of January, of which the sex of but three was dis- 

 tinguished — two males and one female. Several were also seen 

 by Mr. H. Upcher, in that neighbourhood, about the same time; 

 and Mr. Bond informs me that a friend of his received sixteen 

 from Norfolk early in the present year. 



Quail. — An old male was flushed and shot at East Harling on 

 the 28th, which had braved the intense cold and deep snow of the 

 previous fortnight. 



Hooper Swans. — Some idea of the very unusual number of these 

 birds that have visited our coast this winter may be formed from the 

 following notes, which I have received from various correspondents, 

 and also from a list of such specimens as have come under my own 

 notice. Just after Christmas a flock of forty were seen passing 

 along the coast at Horsey, near Yarmouth. At Hunstanton, during 

 the first week in January, a flock of twenty-six were seen on one 

 occasion, feeding close in shore off" Holme Point, and another lot 

 of seven frequented the entrance to Heacham Cieek. On the 12th 

 several were observed off" the Sherringham beach passing along the 

 coast; and on the same day, far inland, a considerable flock were 

 both heard and seen over the town of Wymondham, near Norwich. 

 1 have also heard of a flight, of which sixty are said to have been 

 counted, having passed over Aylsham, some ten miles from the sea, 

 about the same lime. A small party of seven made their appearance 



