4634 THE ZooLoGist—OcToBER, 1875. 
Pochards and other Fowl Nesting in Norfolk.—I have ascer- 
tained this summer, having myself seen both its eggs and young, 
that the pochard still breeds, in a wild state, ou one or two of 
our Norfolk meres, but nowhere in the “ Broad” district. Having 
also, on the same waters, seen three pairs of tufted ducks still 
located there, of their own accord, in the first week in June, I feel 
little doubt that this species also breeds with us, though I failed to 
discover either the nest or young, but the agitation of one hen 
tufted duck was too demonstrative for one to doubt the existence 
of nestlings not far off in the thick sedges. I have two notices 
also of wigeon flushed in different localities in the county in the 
middle of June; and, on authority which I can scarcely doubt, 
I learn that a brood of young common scoters were seen on 
Hickling Broad throughout the summer. Mr. Booth, who was in 
that neighbourhood in July, tells me that he saw some fourteen 
or fifteen scoters flying over that Broad towards the end of the 
month. Garganey have been more than usually plentiful on the 
Broads, and shovellers in fair proportion, though apparently most 
partial to our inland meres. 
JULY. 
Montagws Harrier.—An adult female and four young birds of 
this species, evidently bred in this county, were sent up to Norwich 
to be stuffed on the 24th of July; the exact locality, for obvious 
reasons, could not be ascertained. 
Green Sandpiper.—On the 2lst a single bird of this species 
was flushed from the side of a pond at Northrepps. 
Stilt Plover.—A second specimen of this rare visitant was killed 
near Ditchingham, in this county, towards the end of July. The 
bird was shot by a Jabouring man as it was feeding in a broad but 
shallow piece of water on Outney Common, known as the “old 
river.” It was quite alone, and as, from its plumage and measure- 
ments,—so far as I could ascertain them after the bird was 
mounted,—it is no doubt a male; it may possibly be the mate 
of the female previously shot at Ingham. The sex was not ascer- 
tained by dissection. 
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