154 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
FEBRUARY. 
Lesser Redpoll.— During the mild damp weather at the 
beginning of the month very large numbers of this Redpoll 
frequented the fields near the city, feeding in flocks upon the 
ploughed lands and “ layers.” 
Goldeneye Duck.— Four fine males of this really “hard- 
weather” fowl were shown me on the 4th, all shot at Yarmouth 
in the sharp frost which prevailed during the last week in 
January. 
Little Bustard.—A female bird of this species, now in the 
possession of Mr. H. M. Upcher, was shot at Potter Heigham on 
the 14th. 
APRIL. 
Curious Capture of a pair of Kestrels.—The Rev. Dr. Goodacre, 
of Wilby Rectory, in this county, informed Mr. Southwell that a 
pair of Kestrels which usually frequented the tower of the church 
were captured on the morning of the lst of April (an ominous 
date for them), under the following singular circumstances :— 
When picked up in the churchyard both birds were found to have 
their wings frozen to their body-feathers, occasioned, I presume, 
by the drifting snow of the night before having penetrated into 
their roosting-place in the belfry, and so wetted their plumage 
that the sharp frost in the early morning fairly pinioned them, 
and on attempting to fly they fell to the foot of the tower, where 
they were secured and placed in a cage. 
Supposed Golden Orioles.—The Rev. H. T. Frere, writing in 
June, informed me that a basket-maker at Diss had seen two 
birds in an osier carr at Palgrave (an adjacent village) which, 
from his description, were probably Golden Orioles. They flew 
up into an ash-tree as he entered the carr, were not at all wild, 
and their whistling notes resembled, he said, the tri-syllabic note 
with which Mr. Frere tried to imitate the whistle of an Oriole. 
He described them as “like a Mavis, only yellow.” They were 
still in the same place when he went back to the carr, about half 
an hour later, but were not seen after that date. This appears 
to have been about the end of April. 
Savi's Warbler.—Mr. Frere also states that about the 27th of 
April, when walking with his wife near a small osier-bed in his 
neighbourhood, they recognized the note of this species, with 
