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Wild-fowl.—Owing to the above causes, and to the extreme 
mildness of the season, the gunners, professional and amateur, had 
a bad time of it. Amongst the rarer specimens that came under my 
notice during the month were an adult male Goldeneye (killed near 
Stalham), three fine Sheldrakes and a good old male Goosander, 
with several immature Red-breasted Mergansers. About the 16th 
an adult Gannet, storm driven, was taken inland at East Ruston, 
and another was killed at Cley in the following week. 
Black-throated Diver.—A young bird of this species was sent 
into Norwich about the first week in the month; and another 
specimen, in winter plumage, was shot on the mill-pond at 
Hempstead, near Holt, on the 8rd, which had a dozen small 
perch in its stomach, all under four inches long. 
Sclavonian and Red-necked Grebes.—One of the former was 
shot at Paston on the Ist, and one of the latter at Yarmouth 
about the same time. 
Bittern.—One killed near Yarmouth on the 15th; and towards 
the end of the month another was seen on Hoveton Broad on 
several occasions, but it does not appear to have remained 
much later. 
Rough-legged Buzzard.—One killed at Yarmouth during the 
first week of the month; another at Hempstead, on the 8th, the 
stomach containing the remains of a Pheasant and a Chaffinch; 
and a third, which had been some time dead, was picked up at 
Northrepps, near Cromer, on the 29th. 
Mealy Redpolls.—These birds, abundant in the early part of the 
winter, were still met with during the month of January. On the 
9th I received specimens for my aviary, one of which had a very 
rich rose-tinted breast. 
Merlin.—A single bird was seen at Northrepps on the 5th. 
Pheasant.—A hen Pheasant was shot at Northrepps on the 
10th, with spurs half an inch long, but showed no signs of male 
plumage. 
Kite.—The occurrence of this once-familiar species is now-a- 
days worthy of special notice. On the 7th an undoubted specimen 
was seen by Mr. J. H. Gurney soaring above his residence and 
garden at Northrepps; and on the 18th I saw, in the flesh, a Kite 
which had been killed two or three days before at Beeston, near 
Cromer,—probably the same bird. A claw was missing from one 
foot, and something like rabbit’s down adhered to the torn end of 
