3828 THE ZOOLOGISL. 
With reference to some of the entries in the above lists, | 
Mr. Bellin kindly procured me the following particulars :— 
The twenty-two Grebes, with the exception of two or three 
Dabchicks, and the one Eared Grebe? were, I regret to say, of 
the Great Crested species. The Eared (probably Sclavonian) 
was purchased by a gentleman who took it to Cambridge. The 
Golden-eyes were almost all Tufted Ducks, a common name for 
that species in Norfolk. Of the true Golden-eye, Fuligula clangula, 
Mr. Bellin informs me he saw but one or two specimens all the 
winter. As Duck and Mallard, as well as Teal, are separately 
mentioned, the rest of the fowl consisted, no doubt, of Wigeon, 
with a few Pochards, rarely, from their diving habits taken in 
decoys, all of which, in Norfolk, come under the denomination of 
half fowl.” 
The small number of Jack Snipes as compared with Full 
Snipes is noticeable in both lists, but at the earlier period they 
would seem to have been most abundant. One Landrail is 
specially mentioned, and the two Rails entered separately in the 
list from December 14th to the 21st, were probably Spotted Rails 
or Crakes, and the much smaller number of Coots and Waterhens 
would indicate that the former, as is usual in sharp weather, had 
left the Broads for more southern quarters, or the salt marshes 
north of Yarmouth. 
The Owls, like the Hawks, may be described as “ various,” 
none rare, but including Barn, Tawny, Long-eared, and perhaps 
Short-eared. As to this, however, I cannot speak positively. 
The small number of Curlews in such a season is remarkable, 
as also the absence of what gunners term ‘“ hard-weather fowl,” 
such as Goosanders, Mergansers, Velvet Scoters, Scaups, Golden- 
eyes (clangula), &c., of which Mr. Bellin informed he saw scarcely 
any. The number of Woodcocks killed at that time on the 
Yarmouth coast, is in no way represented by the five-and-twenty 
in the lists, as numbers were shot by amateur-gunners, which 
never came into the dealers’ hands. About the same time 
Mr. Cremer, of Beeston, near Cromer, in four afternoons, shot over 
forty Woodcocks, which he found close to his house, flying from 
place to place, and apparently seeking food. Many of these may 
have quitted the inland piantations, but in some instances they 
were seen to come from the seaward. He also shot at the same 
time a good many Green and Golden Plover. He heard of a flock 
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