NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 825 
feel myself most highly obliged by a dozen of the copies of it as 
struck off from the press. Accept, my dear Sir, the warmest 
thanks of a grateful heart for every mark of your kindness, and 
particularly of your introduction of me to this learned body, 
of which I will exert myself to prove deserving your kindness. 
Ah, Sir, little did I think, even when I was elected an associate, 
to have seen this Society so flourish ! 
I hope Mrs. Marsham and your family are well. Happy 
should I be to see you here. I am building a pretty cottage, 
which will be shortly finished, when I hope to enjoy the otiwm 
(dare I say cum dignitate), but where I should be proud next 
summer to see you. My kindest respects to Mrs. M., self, and 
family (particularly our friend Gibb). 
Believe me, dear Sir, yours, &c., 
Es Bi. 
When you see our worthy preses, pray present my kind 
respects to him. 
Newbury, 23 Aug. 1814 [?]. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK FOR 1878.* 
By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S. 
EXCEPTIONAL seasons demand exceptional treatment, and as 
it is not always possible within a limited period to obtain all the 
information required, I must ask permission to follow up my 
“Notes” of last year with a summary of such facts as have since 
come to my knowledge through many reliable correspondents, or 
have been picked up in friendly conversation, relative to the 
combined effects of flood and frost upon resident and migratory 
birds alike, in the first half of the winter of 1878-79. It will be 
remembered that the disastrous floods which in November, 1878, 
reached their greatest height on the 19th and 20th of that month, 
and not only in and around this city, but almost throughout the 
county, laid the low-lying lands and marshes under water, were 
succeeded about the third week in December by frosts of unusual 
severity. ‘The wide extent of country still submerged became 
one sheet of ice, and not only the larger broads, but parts even of 
* Supplementary to those published in ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1879, p 153. 
