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Hen Harrier. — An adult female was killed at Downham about 

 the beginning of the naonthj and a young male was sent me from 

 Salthouse on the 31st. 



Ruff and Reeve. — Three or four specimens were killed, as usual, 

 in Norfolk, on their return in spring. When will these, and many 

 other waders, come under a Bird-preservation Act ? 



Grnylag Goose. — An immature example of this now rare species, 

 which had not occurred throughout the severe weather of the two 

 preceding months, was shot at Burgh, near Yarmouth, on the 23rd : 

 the bird was solitary, and no others were remarked in that neigh- 

 bourhood, either before or afterwards. It proved to be a female, 

 and weighed four pounds twelve and a half ounces. The points of 

 the wings were rather dove-colour than blue-gray, as in the adult, 

 but two darkish feathers were visible on the breast. Stomach filled 

 with grit and fibrous matter. 



(No notes worth recording for April.) 



May. 



Richardson'' s Sktia. — On the 13th a fine specimen, having so far 

 attained its adult plumage as to have much white about the sides 

 of the neck, and the tail-feathers elongated, was shot in a strange 

 locality for such a bird — in Brooke Wood, near Norwich. I can 

 in no way account for its occurrence so far inland, as no heavy 

 gales had occurred for some time previously. 



Waders on Breydon. — The usual migratory period, on or about 

 "godwit day," the 12th of May, was marked by the occurrence of 

 gray plovers, pigmy curlews, knots, bartailed godwits, little stints, 

 turnstones, sanderlings, &c., in greater or less numbers, and many 

 of them in the most perfect summer plumage. Amongst examples 

 obtained by the gunners of these different species, I saw some of 

 the finest gray plovers that have come under my notice since the 

 spring of 1855, two male pigmy curlews in full summer plumage, 

 and several good "red" knots and godwits. Several black terns 

 occurred about the same time. 



Whitewinged Black Terns. — Yarrell records but one example 

 of this species as killed in this country — an adult male, shot from 

 amongst some black terns on the Shannon, in 1841. Since that 

 date two others have been procured in Norfolk ; one on Horsey 

 Mere, near Yarmouth, on the 17th of May, 1853, which, with a 

 companion, was observed in company with a small flock of black 



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