160 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
to a game-dealer in that town between the 14th and 2lst of 
December. 
Raptorial Migrants—On the 11th of May a female Hobby, 
assuming adult plumage, probably a bird of 1877, was shot at 
Northrepps; and another was seen in the same locality on the 
15th. A Short-eared Owl was shot in Feltwell Fen on the 2nd 
of September, as recorded in ‘The Field’ by Mr. F. Doggett. 
A Honey Buzzard was seen on the 25th of September in 
the “‘ Cottage Wood” at Northrepps. An immature Peregrine 
was killed at Shottesham on the 9th of November, and a fine 
adult male in the same locality on the 30th, on which date a Hen 
Harrier, female, was also brought into Norwich. A Merlin was 
shot at Knapton, near Cromer, about the 24th. On the 10th of 
December a Buzzard was seen at Northrepps (mobbed by Rooks), 
but not near enough to ascertain the species. One of the many 
so-called “Golden Eagles,” but only A. albicilla in immature 
plumage, was shot at Fritton, near Lowestoft, about the end of 
December, and being but slightly wounded was captured and 
placed in the Yarmouth Aquarium, where I believe it still 
remains. Another was said to have been seen at the time on the 
same water, attracted as usual by the fowl frequenting the Fritton 
Decoy. This bird, as a “‘ Scotch” Eagle and a “ Golden” Eagle, 
was recorded in various London journals. During the severe 
weather towards the close of December, two Hen Harriers are 
said to have been shot off a tree near Yarmouth, and a Marsh 
Harrier and a Merlin were killed in the same neighbourhood. 
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF Mierants, AS OBSERVED CHIEFLY IN THE 
Vicrnivy oF Cromer and Norwion. 
July 12 ‘Two young Red-backed Shrikes observed at Northrepps being 
mobbed by a hen Chaffinch and a Wren. 
», 25. A great quantity of Swifts observed at Northrepps going inland. 
Aug. 7. The early congregation of House Martins with an evident 
view to migration, which I recorded (Zool. 1878, p. 45) as 
occurring on August 16th, 1877, was witnessed in exactly a 
similar manner in 1878, on the 7th. At 7 a.m. the lofty 
slated roof of the chapel opposite my house was covered with 
these birds, and difficult as it was to estimate their numbers, 
from their restlessness, I satisfactorily counted over two hundred, 
