158 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Swallows’ and not Martins’ nests had I not seen the old birds 
hovering up under the eaves, and feeding their young as they 
appeared at the tiny aperture. 
NOVEMBER. 
Tittle Auks.—Several of these birds were picked up in inland 
localities during the first week in the month, the wind, at times, 
being strong from the N. and N.E. Between the 5th and 7th a 
birdstuffer at Holt had six from neighbouring localities, picked 
up dead or exhausted close to the coast; and far inland, about 
the same time, one was picked up at Hevingham, and another at 
Syderstone on the 2nd. There is also a record in ‘ The Field’ of 
November 28rd of a Little Auk picked up alive near Norwich on 
the 9th, but which died soon after. 
Waxwings.—A flock of five or six Waxwings are said to have 
been seen at Southwold, near Lowestoft, on the 9th of this month, 
and though appearing in the sister county of Suffolk, I record the 
fact here, as I learn from Mr. Anthony Hamond, of Westacre, that 
he has reason to believe some Waxwings occurred in his neigh- 
bourhood, in West Norfolk; but I have seen no specimens in 
our birdstuffers’ hands. 
Long-tailed Duck.—Mr. Cremer, of Beeston, had a young bird 
of this species killed on that part of the coast, about the 26th, 
and heard of others seen. A female was sent to Norwich Market 
about the 5th of November. 
Black-headed Bunting, variety.—A curiously pied specimen of 
this bird was shot somewhere in the county this month—a species 
not much given to variation in plumage. 
Kingfishers and the Floods.—Amongst the minor incidents of 
the floods which in November, 1878, caused so much destruction 
to property in and around Norwich, was the novel appearance of 
many Kingfishers within the bounds of the city, driven by the 
rising waters from their usual quiet haunts on the Yare and 
Wensum. For some days prior to the great inundation of the 
20th of November they, no doubt, suffered privation from the 
difficulty of procuring food, every stream being more or less 
turbid and swollen, and the powerful current in the main rivers 
carrying everything seawards. When the final catastrophe there- 
fore happened, on the 20th, and the waters above the New Mills, 
meeting with serious obstructions, diverted their course and 
