4292 TuE ZooLocist—JANUARY, 1875. 
found the young of the wagtail lying dead at the foot of the shrub; 
and subsequently the upper nest was removed, and four thrush’s 
eggs laid in the old foundation, which had been relined; no doubt 
the work of the original occupants. 
Hawyfinch.—A nest of young hawfinches was found at Brooke 
this summer. 
Baillon’s Crake.—A beautiful specimen—now in my collection, 
which proved to be a female in full summer plumage—was picked 
up dead, under the telegraph wires on the Lynn and Hunstanton 
line, on the 2nd of June. 
JULY. 
Hobby eating Bats. — About the first week in this month a 
Norwich bird-stuffer received a hobby whose stomach contained 
the remains of several large grasshoppers and of two small bats; 
the latter, I imagine, not generally known as forming part of the 
diet of this species. 
Hooded Crow.—A solitary hooded crow was seen at Northrepps 
as early as the 18th of July. 
Rednecked Phalarope.—Mr. F. Norgate informs me that on the 
4th inst. he received a female of this species in full summer 
plumage, which had been caught alive by a boy at Salthouse. 
When placed in a basin of water it fed on flies thrown into the 
water, and sat on the surface as buoyantly as a gull, with the head 
drawn back between the shoulders, It frequently dipped its bill 
in the water; and, though too weak to fly or stand on its feet, it 
seemed generally ready to eat or play with the flies given to it, but 
died the same evening in poor condition, though apparently 
uninjured. Another was shot in the same neighbourhood about a 
fortnight later. 
AucustT. 
Autumn Migrants.—A knot seen at Blakeney on the Ist, and a 
green sandpiper at Roughton, near Cromer, on the 4th. 
Osprey.—An immature bird shot on Breydon on the 25th. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Peregrine.—A single bird seen at Northrepps about the 12th of 
this month. 
Migratory Waders.—On the 12th I saw nine or ten pigmy 
curlews that had been shot at Yarmouth, with a sanderling and 
