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there every year, but the nest of P. minor has not yet been found 
in Norfolk. A male specimen of Picus minor was shot at 
Harleston in April, and was set up by an amateur, of whom I 
recently purchased it. 
Lirrize Busrarp.—An adult female Little Bustard was shot 
at Caistor, two miles north of Yarmouth, on September 12th, 
and came into my possession. I found its stomach filled with 
green food, consisting of leaves and tops of plants. The ovary 
contained some eggs as large as millet seed. In total length it 
measured 18 inches; in the wing, from the carpal joint, nearly 
10 inches; and across its fully extended wings to tip of each, 36 
inches; the tail, 4} inches; middle toe and claw, 14 inch; 
outer toe and claw, 14 inch; inner toe and claw, 1 inch; bill 
along the ridge of upper mandible, 1g inch; tibia, 33 inches; 
tarsus, 2% inches; iris, yellow; weight, 1 Ib. 11 oz. It is rather 
remarkable that nearly all the specimens of the Little Bustard 
which have occurred in Norfolk of late years have proved to be 
females. 
Prrwrr.—Amongst several Peewits that were killed on New 
Year's Day and sent me, my attention was especially struck with 
the singular appearance of one, whose legs and feet were covered 
with a number of warts or excrescences. I counted as many as 
twenty-three on one leg and foot, and seventeen on the other ; 
they were clustered principally around each knee-joint and the 
base of each foot. I have previously noticed, although very 
rarely, an isolated wart or two on the legs or toes of certain birds , 
but the above is the only instance that has come under my 
notice (out of the many birds that have passed through my hands) 
in which a bird has been so much infested with this disease ; 
I therefore think it must be of unusual occurrence. 
Norroik Prover.—A female Norfolk Plover was caught in a 
rabbit trap on November 19th at Burgh St. Peter, near Great 
Yarmouth. I had one sent me from Hickling two years since 
caught in the same manner. 
Kentish Prover.—Two or three specimens of the Kentish 
Plover, a few Red-breasted Godwits (Bar-tailed), Turnstones, and 
Grey Plovers were seen on the Breydon Muds, Yarmouth, on 
April 19th, and on the 23rd of same month a female of the 
former species was shot. An adult female of the Kentish (locally 
called “ Alexandra”) Plover was shot in the same locality on 
