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sitting in rows of thirty or forty together, on the roof, the 
stone copings, the eaves, and level ridge of the roof itself; all 
exclusively swarming on the sunny side of the building, and 
occasionally flying off in large flocks and settling again. I was 
obliged to leave home at 10 a.m., but even by that time the 
main body had disappeared, and only a few, comparatively 
speaking, were seen in the neighbourhood after that date. 
These I presume are the parents and offspring, whose nests, 
built early in the season, have met with no disasters, and who 
thus, freed from the anxieties of a second hatch, annually pass 
southward by short stages, influenced only by the weather. 
Large numbers of Curlew on Breydon. 
Two or three Rock Pipits on the Pakefield Cliffs, near Lowestoft, 
but not seen again. Several Snipes seen near Northrepps. 
. A Turtle Dove at Northrepps. A young Cuckoo seen at Lowestoft. 
3. Swifts last seen near Lowestoft. 
a: 
. Wheatears, seen daily on the Lowestoft Denes from August 31st, 
not seen after the 6th. 
. Yellow Wagtail at Lowestoft. 
26. 
A female or young male Redstart flushed in a turnip-field at 
Northrepps. Just prior to this date a very considerable arrival 
of Snipes was observed in several parts of Norfolk ; upwards of 
a hundred couples are said to have been flushed in the day in 
one locality. A few Pigmy Curlews at Lynn about this date. 
_ At 4 p.m. a flock of small birds was seen at Cromer flying low 
over the sea and making for land near the jetty. One bird was 
observed to lag behind, much exhausted, and when the main 
body reached the beach, and, rising at the sea-wall, mounted 
up and passed inland over the house-tops, this unfortunate, 
thoroughly worn-out, struck the wall and fluttered down into 
the sand. When picked up it proved to be a hen Chaffinch. 
Neither Swallows nor Martins seen in Norwich after this date. 
A large number of Snipes on Beeston Bog, near Cromer; all 
gone next day. 
. First Hooded Crows (a small flock seen at Northrepps); others 
seen coming in from the sea on the 14th. 
. A Woodcock seen at Trimingham. 
. A Wheatear seen at Northrepps. 
. A House Martin seen at Cromer. 
. A Woodcock flushed from my neighbour’s garden on Unthank’s 
Road, within five minutes’ walk of Norwich Market-place. In 
June, 1877, one was caught alive in a greenhouse on the 
Newmarket Road, within a mile of the city. 
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