THE ZooLocist—Marcg, 1875. 4367 
breed. About the 16th one was shot at Strumpshaw, and another 
a week later at Martham. 
Winter Migrants and the Frost.—With the first heavy fall of 
snow, about the 11th, I found the usual trays-full of male green- 
finches in the market, the only other small birds with them being 
male house sparrows, as if they also dissolved partnership when on 
their travels at that particular season. In all parts of the county 
the unusually large flocks of redwings and fieldfares excited general 
notice; and these, as the weather increased in severity, seemed to 
draw closer to the towns and villages, clearing off the berries of 
every kind, and exhibiting a tameness during the most severe 
weather which I scarcely ever remember to have witnessed before. 
The deep snow on the 27th, followed by two or three nights of 
stinging frost, brought them to our doors and windows, like robins 
and sparrows, and in front of my house, within ten yards of the 
public road, I counted sixteen fieldfares on one Pyracanthus 
shrub (nailed up between the windows), greedily devouring the 
berries or resting with a few attendant redwings on the window- 
sills or nearest trees, so soon as their hunger was appeased for 
atime. The same thing occurred within the walls of the city as 
well as in the suburbs, and whilst many fell victims to boys, cats, 
and other destructives, the survivors left only when no further 
food was to be had. Why, in their half-starved condition, they did 
not pass on southwards, before, I cafinot quite understand. One 
thing was particularly observable: the usually wary fieldfares were 
more starved than the redwings, and exhibited less fear of passers 
by. Two fieldfares that I caught and turned into my aviary died 
in a wretched state of emaciation, though well supplied with cran- 
berries, whilst a redwing taken at the same time was plump and 
still survives. Redwings sitting in rows on the housetops is not a 
usual sight. I cannot ascertain that the enormous migration of 
sky larks said to have been observed on the Lincolnshire coast on 
the 11th and in Sussex on the 17th was remarked in Norfolk, and 
the Norwich market has had but a sprinkling of these birds 
amongst the number of blackbirds, thrushes, fieldfares, &c., 
hanging in bunches for sale; but on the 20th Mr. Gurney informs 
me two large flocks of sky larks were observed feeding in some 
fields at Northrepps, roughly computed at over five hundred birds; 
and on the morning of the 17th I heard of fifteen hundred being 
netted by one birdeatcher on a farm at Melbourne, near Royston, 
