NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 841 
Pied Wagtail, variety.— An unusual variety of this bird, having 
white feathers on the neck and wing-coverts, was shown me on 
the 6th. 
Shore Larks.—Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., shot four at Blakeney 
on the 12th, and saw others. No longer a rarity on our coast. 
Migratory Waders.—On the 17th of March a Golden Plover, 
in nearly full breeding-dress, was killed at Fundenhall. On the 
14th of April a Green Sandpiper was shot at Keswick. Three 
Kentish Plovers, a male and two females, were shot on Breydon 
between the 23rd and 26th of April. I heard also of two Spoon- 
bills being seen on Breydon early in the summer, one of which 
was said to have been shot and sent to Norwich. There were but 
few Godwits at Yarmouth in May, and little else worth notice. A 
Green Sandpiper was observed in the neighbourhood of Holt on 
the 5th of June; and on the 6th three Spoonbills were seen near 
the lifeboat house at Blakeney, feeding by the water’s edge; and 
the fact is worthy of record that, although discovered and watched 
for some time through a glass by two local birdstuffers, the birds 
remained unmolested, and the recent Act respected. At Yarmouth 
the inducements held out to the gunners to secure all rarities 
would have insured their destruction. The man who breaks the 
law gets the best of it at present. On the 20th of June, at 
Hunstanton, I saw, as the tide began to fall, a considerable flock 
of Turnstones, apparently in nearly full summer plumage, busily 
feeding on the first portions of rock exposed above water. On 
the sands also were two birds which I believe to have been Knots, 
and several Oystercatchers by the water’s edge, but no Sanderlings 
or Dunlins. A single Turnstone was also seen on the edge of a 
sand-bank in Wells Harbour on the 2lst. On the 19th of 
August Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., received from Hasborough eleven 
red Knots and a Redshank, shot near the lighthouse. They were 
all old birds in about three parts summer plumage, and, strange 
to say, the reddest proved to bea female. On the 12th of August 
three Greenshanks, birds of the year, and two- immature 
Temminck’s Stints were sent up from Yarmouth. On the 30th 
of August, a hot sunny day, when walking over the lighthouse 
hills, I heard the far distant note of the Redshank, and, with 
some difficulty, traced it to a flock of birds so high up in the 
clouds they looked “ scarce so gross” as Finches, but with a good 
glass I made them out to be what I suspected by the note. They 
