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on the river at Bowthorpe, within three miles of Norwich, during 

 the first week in January, and though constantly shifting their 

 quarters on the same stream, and losing three or four of their 

 number from the persecution of gunners, were observed in the same 

 neighbourhood as late as the 26th of February. On the 18th of 

 January eighteen were seen together on Breydon, near Yarmouth, 

 and of those killed in this county no doubt a very considerable 

 number were sent to the London markets. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 was informed by a dealer in Leadenhall Market that he had received 

 as many as a hundred hoopers during the frost, and chiefly from 

 Lynn. One poulterer at Lynn has had thirty. A fine adult bird 

 was shot on the lake at Kimberley Park, near Wymondham, about 

 the 20th of January; but none appeared for sale in the Norwich 

 Market till early in the following month. 



Brent Geese. — As before remarked, the abundance of this species 

 was extraordinary during the hard weather, being obtained by 

 hundreds off the coast between Lynn and Hunstanton. Many of 

 those killed were sent to the London markets, but both at Lynn 

 and Norwich the poulterers' shops were well supplied. On the 

 13th I counted sixteen in our fish-market, besides others sent to 

 the birdstuffers. 



Bean Goose. — An adult male was shot by Mr. H. Upcher at 

 Blakeney, on the 11th — one of three feeding by the side of a 

 marsh drain. 



Pinkfooled Goose. — This species, now fully established as our 

 most abundant gray goose, has been very plentiful, and, as usual, 

 more widely dispersed during the sharp weather. On the 2nd 

 I received an old bird killed out of a flock of eleven that were 

 feeding in a turnip-field at Anmer, near Westacre ; and I am in- 

 formed on good authority that, during the snowy weather which 

 prevailed at Christmas time, more than a hundred of these geese 

 were killed in the neighbourhood of Holkham. An adult and an 

 immature bird, shot out of a small flock at North Wootton, near 

 Lynn, on recently reclaimed land, were sent me on the 3rd of this 

 month. 



February. 

 Hooper Swans. — A fine old bird in the Norwich Market on the 

 2nd; a young and an old bird on the 11th. Several were hanging 

 for sale in Leadenhall Market on the 6th, said to be from Norfolk j 



