THE ZooLogist—JANUARY, 1875. 4293 
some golden plovers. At Blakeney, between the 8th and 12th, 
beside dunlins, gray plovers (in the young plumage), bartailed 
godwits and knots, three or four pigmy curlews were shot, one 
little stint, one Kentish plover, and a purple sandpiper, of which 
species more were seen. The Kentish plover was in its first year’s 
plumage, and very difficult to distinguish from ring dotterels of the 
same age. 
Early Fieldfares, §c.—Mr. Purdy, of Aylsham, sprung a field- 
fare from the turnips on the Ist of September, and saw two or three 
more on the 8th. On the 2lst, when partridge shooting, I found 
the turnips full of song thrushes, but scarcely any blackbirds; on 
the 19th of October the same fields were full of blackbirds as well 
as the fences, and hardly any thrushes to be seen. 
Rednecked Phalarope.—Another specimen was killed near Lynn 
some time this month. This species has not, I believe, occurred 
here since 1868. 
OcTOBER. 
Ring Ouzel.—Six seen at Northrepps on the 14th. 
Late Appearance of Summer Migrants.—A goatsucker seen at 
Northrepps on the 6th, a few swallows on the 5th, and a house 
martin at Cromer on the 8lst. On the 14th, in company with 
Mr. J. H. Gurney and others, I saw a swift flying round the steeple 
of Cromer church; and, on good authority, I learn that one was 
seen at the same place on the 20th, probably the same bird. Two 
swallows and some house martins were last seen by myself, near 
Norwich, on the 19th. 
Twite.—On the 20th I saw five of these winter visitants that had 
been netted near Yarmouth, some still retaining the rich flame- 
colour on the lower part of the back. 
Arctic Tern.—On the 20th an adult bird of this species was sent 
to Norwich, in the flesh. 
Skuas off the Coast.—During the last week of this month a 
Richardson’s skua and no less than eleven pomarine skuas were 
recorded in a local journal to have been brought into Yarmouth, 
which no doubt, as is usual at this season of the year, were shot 
from the herring smacks when on their fishing grounds out at sea, 
these birds, like the gulls, being attracted to the vessels as the nets 
are hauled in. 
Merlin.—A male, in perfect plumage, is said to have been shot 
on the North Denes at Yarmouth on the 29th. 
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