330 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. Hamond also heard of several Waxwings having been seen 
in his neighbourhood, but I have not been able to ascertain that 
any were shot. 
From inland localities on the east side of the county I have 
notes from Mr. F. Norgate, of Sparham, and Mr. Purdy, of 
Aylsham, who seem to agree that, although the birds generally 
suffered much from the severity of the weather, there were but 
few deaths from actual starvation. Mr. Norgate believes that, 
owing to the number of hedge-shooters at the time, most of the 
birds found dead had been previously wounded. A few Green 
Woodpeckers and Robins were picked up dead in his neighbour- 
hood, no doubt victims of cold and privation. Kingfishers, as 
stated in my last year’s ‘‘ Notes,” suffered so severely in the 
November floods that scarcely any were left to succumb to the 
frost. 
At the height of the November flood in the Wensum Valley, 
Mr. Norgate found the fences, rough grass, and drifted rubbish 
near the streams alive with Water Voles, Field Voles, and 
Shrews; and Sparham Heath swarmed with mice, as our City 
wharfs and warehouses did with rats. Wildfowl were abundant 
in his neighbourhood during the frost, and Waterhens were all 
over the place. The Partridges do not seem to have suffered, 
owing probably, as Mr. Purdy suggests, to the fences being 
comparatively open, not blocked with drift snow, and an absence 
of wind with the frost. 
Amongst the more important specimens recorded in ‘The 
Zoologist’ for 1880 (p. 49) by Mr. T. E. Gunn, birdstuffer, of 
Norwich, as having passed through his hands in 1878 (not 
included in my previous ‘“* Notes”), are a Lesser Spotted Wood- 
pecker, shot at Raveningham, Norfolk; another seen with it at 
the time. A female Little Bustard, shot at Caister, near 
Yarmouth, on the 12th of September; two or three specimens of 
the Kentish Plover from Breydon, in October, and a Temminck’s 
Stint on August 24th; an adult male Night Heron, killed at 
Mundham, near Harleston, on the 10th of May; and a female 
Gull-billed Tern, shot on Breydon, on the 8th of May; and at 
the same time, another Tern of the same species, which unfortu- 
nately was not preserved. 
My journal for 1879, during something more than the first 
half of the year, seems less like a record of ornithological z 
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