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sand-hills in the neighbourhood of Lynn, that although, when eggs 
are taken and hatched out under tame ducks or hens, the young 
are easily reared, if young wild Sheldrakes are captured and 
placed under the charge of the foster-parents, with nestlings of 
their own kind and age, they are never brought up to maturity ; 
refusing the food supplied when once they have known their own 
mothers and their habits and diet. 
Hooded Crow in Summer.—Amongst the species one would least 
care to acclimatise, from its egg-stealing proclivities, the “hoody” 
ranks supreme, yet we seem to have yearly more and more evidence 
of its inclination to do so. On August 6th a very accurate observer, 
at Northrepps, saw a Hooded Crow drive from her nest a Wood 
Pigeon, which made considerable resistance, and then devour the 
eggs. A young Hooded Crow, recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun.; 
in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1877 (p. 445), as shot by himself at North- 
repps on August 20th, having been previously seen on the 18th, 
had no doubt been reared in the neighbourhood, as undoubtedly 
were the young brood seen at Sherringham, an adjoining parish, in 
August, 1867, as recorded by myself in ‘The Zoologist’ (2nd ser. 
p. 1012), on the authority of Mr. H. M. Upcher. 
Pigmy Curlew.—A pair of these birds, in nearly full summer 
plumage, were killed at Blakeney in the first week of August. 
Montagu’s Harrier.—On the 15th a male of this species, in 
change from brown to grey plumage, was killed in this county and 
sent to London to be preserved, as recorded in ‘The Field’ of 
August 25th. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Manx Shearwater.—On the 15th a bird of this species was sent 
up to Norwich to be stuffed, but I could not learn in what part of 
the county it had been killed. 
Snow Bunting.—I saw a single bird this autumn which had been 
shot here so early as September 19th, still showing many traces of 
its summer plumage. 
Late appearance of the Cuckoo.—Mr. H. M. Upcher has recorded 
in ‘The Field’ of October 13th the fact of a Cuckoo having been 
shot at Sherringham on the 28th September. The age of the 
specimen is not given, but it was most probably a late bird of 
the year. 
Autuninal Migration of Waders.—I am told that about the 18th 
