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young were hatched in their novel situation, found to their surprise 

 a young cuctoo, of course per se, and apparently filling up the 

 entire orifice of the disused drain-pipe. In the same locality, later 

 in the season, I saw several young cuckoos; one, perched on the 

 tiled roof of a steam drainage-pipe, was attended by a pair of 

 titlarks. 



August. 



Rosecoloured Pastor. — A fine adult male, with good crest, was 

 killed at Reedham, near Yarmouth, on the 17th. 



Kestrel. — Since the "ronds" and marshes have been mown this 

 autumn I have noticed these birds, in unusual numbers, along the 

 banks of the Yare, between Norwich and Yarmouth. I have had 

 five or six in sight at one time, attracted, I presume, by the mice 

 that had lost their shelter since the grass was cut. 



September. 



Great Snipe. — Two out of four solitary snipes are said to have 

 been shot on a bog near Cromer on the 23rd. On the 16th a pair 

 were killed near Breydon, and another at Catfield on the 21st. 



Common Crossbill. — A red male of this species, killed early in 

 the month at Westwick, agrees exactly with the varieties mentioned 

 by Yarrell, as in the possession of Mr. Doubleday, of Epping, 

 having "dull white tips to the feathers of both sets of the wing- 

 coverts." In this respect, but in this only, it resembles the 

 European whitewinged crossbill. 



Autumn Waders. — During this month I have seen a few ruffs 

 and reeves, — the former, of course, without frills, — and some young 

 blacktailed godwits, and young gray plovers, with yellow markings 

 on the back and wings, killed at Yarmouth. On the J 6th an 

 immature greenshank from Blakeney, and another from Beeston, 

 near Cromer j also a Temminck's stint from Blakeney, on the 

 14th. 



Gray Phalarope. — One shot at Plumstead, near Norwich, on 

 the 23rd. 



Rednecked Grebe. — A female, but just changing from summer to 

 winter plumage, was shot near Yarmouth on the 28th. 



Henry Stevenson. 



Norwich, October 3, 1871. 



