4452 THE ZooLocist—May, 1875. 
2nd. Wind south; thawing. Canvey Island. The ducks and 
wigeons came in; flight very high. 
8rd. Wind W.S.W. Canvey Island. The ice had all disappeared. 
Three wigeons and a duck shot, besides redstarts and dunlins. 
4th. Wind S.W. Canvey Island. A bernicle goose seen in the 
river, but too far from the island to shoot. A flock of pintail 
ducks seen. A good many gray plovers and dunlins flying about. 
5th. Wind N. A few ducks seen in the Lower Hope. 
llth. Wind S.S.E. Three swans seen in Hadleigh Ray. 
16th. Wind W.S.W. Canvey Island. Ducks flying very high. 
20th. Wind W.S.W., strong. Passed a few ducks in the Jenkin 
Swatch at the back of the Nore. 
23rd. Wind W.S.W. Queensborough Swale. Birds not so 
plentiful on the Kentish as on the Essex shore. 
FEBRUARY. 
10th. Wind E. A few ducks seen near Hole Haven, flying high. 
11th. Wind S. Ducks and wigeons flying about Hadleigh Ray. 
13th. Wind N.N.E. A large bunch of wigeons in Leigh Middle, 
also several divers. Shot a godwit out of a small flock. 
25th. Wind E. Canvey Island. Large flocks of knots, in com- 
pany with curlews and dunlins, very difficult to get near. 
27th. Wind E., blowing hard. Shot two curlews from the yacht. 
A large bunch of wigeons (sixty) settled about four o’clock on 
Bargander, but too wild to approach. Several divers in Hadleigh 
Ray. 
MarcCcH. 
llth. Strong N.E. wind. Canvey Island. A flock of forty teal 
came in with the evening flight. 
12th. Wind N.N.E., with snow squalls. The ducks evidently 
pairing; put up several couples in walking over the saltings. 
13th. Wind E.N.E., half a gale. The blackheaded gulls had 
assumed the summer plumage. Not nearly so many curlews or 
dunlins about. Several bunches of wigeon in Ray; very wild and 
would not settle more than a few minutes at a time. 
The punt gunners have done nothing, comparatively speaking, 
this winter. Some gunners have only shot two or three ducks the 
whole winter. Geese have been very wild, and, with the exception 
of Christmas week, the weather has been very bad for wild- 
fowling. 
A. H. SMEE. 
