ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 
By Henry Stevenson, F'.L.S. 
JUNE, 1876. 
Pheasant.—A hen Pheasant hatched off her brood on the 2nd, 
in a nest made in the ivy growing against the east wall of 
Northrepps Cottage, about twelve feet above the ground, and 
brought off five chicks, two or three others being killed by the 
descent. 
Hooded Crow.—One observed at Northrepps on the 22nd. 
Spoonbill.—A single bird seen early in the winter on Breydon. 
Rednecked Phalarope.—A male bird killed at Yarmouth on the 
19th. 
AUGUST. 
Great Crested Grebe.—By a strange chance two old Grebes and 
three young ones were killed, at one shot, on Rockland Broad, on 
the Ist of August. The young were still in the down, with striped 
heads and necks, either a second brood or a late hatch, owing to 
the first nest being destroyed. 
Turnstones and Sanderlings.—At Cromer, -on the 15th, I saw 
a flock of Turnstones passing sufficiently near the beach to 
distinguish, with a glass, that they were all in nearly full summer 
plumage, as also was a specimen shot at Blakeney two days before. 
Sanderlings shot at the same time and place were adults in summer 
plumage. 
Richardson’s Skua.—A single bird was seen off Cromer as early 
as the first week in August. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Nocturnal Migrants.—Heard the whistling of birds over the 
city for the first time this autumn about 8.30 p.m. of the 10th, 
apparently some small Tring@, but very far off. Wind N.N.W., 
with a dark sky, but starlight. 
Osprey.—One shot at Guist on the 24th. A male on South 
Walsham Broad on the 28th; and another at Sennowe about the 
same date. The latter had frequented the neighbourhood for 
some days. 
Honey Buzzard.—An immature female was killed near Diss on 
