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of this month, when, after a long prevalence of wind from the S. 
and S.W. it shifted suddenly to N.E. and N.W., the “muds” of 
Breydon were frequented for a few days with an unusual number 
of grallatorial migrants of various kinds; and of birds then pro- 
cured may be mentioned two Spotted Redshanks and several 
Pigmy Curlews. A Spoonbill is said to have been seen at the 
same time. 
Richardson’s Skua.— An immature specimen was shot at 
Blakeney about the 18th. 
OCTOBER. 
Hoopoe.—I referred in this journal in 1875 to the singular fact 
that this species, which of late years has been a rare visitant 
to Norfolk, makes its appearance now in autumn rather than in 
spring, at which season, some ten or fifteen years ago, it was 
much more commonly seen. Mr. T. E. Gunn, bird-preserver, 
records, in a local publication, a specimen as shot at Filby, near 
Yarmouth, this month. 
Blue-throated Warbler.—Though not actually procured in Nor- 
folk, having been taken on the Lowestoft Denes, the example of 
this warbler recorded by Mr. G. P. Moore, in ‘The Zoologist’ 
(1877, p. 449), as entangled in some nets in July last, is most 
interesting to local ornithologists, as it belongs to the Scandi- 
navian form of this species, as did also one taken under similar 
circumstances, and near the same spot, at Lowestoft, in May, 
1856; another found dead on Yarmouth beach in September, 1841; 
and a third, recorded in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1867 (p. 1014), by 
Mr. J. R. Griffith, of Oxford, as identified by himself as it alighted, 
on the lst September of that year, upon the rigging of the S.S. 
‘North Star,’ when off the Norfolk coast; the vessel being bound 
at the time from Christiania to London. 
Spotted Redshank.—Two specimens were shot on Breydon on 
the 12th and 22nd of this month, the former a darkish bird in 
change of plumage, and the latter a bird of the year. 
Marsh Harrier.—One taken near Hoveton Broad about the 
middle of the month. 
NOVEMBER. 
Mule Pheasant.—A remarkably fine example of the assumption 
of male plumage by the hen Pheasant was shown me on the 2lst, 
