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apparently kept itself amply provided with food, as the numerous 
remains of pigeons found about the park fully proved: its stomach 
contained pieces of pigeons’ flesh and a good many of the feathers. 
On the 8th of December an immature male was shot at Yarmouth, 
which was also sent up to me: this was doubtless a bird of the 
year, the plumage being much paler than in ordinary examples, 
more especially about the head and neck, reminding one, at first 
sight, of the immature summer falcon. This bird was also ex- 
ceedingly fat and weighed twenty-two ounces. 
Merlin.—On the 18th of November a male, in mature plumage, 
was shot at Taverham: its stomach was filled with the remains of 
a greenfinch, and I also found attached to the outer coat of the 
stomach a single threadworm, measuring ten inches in length. ~ 
Roughlegged Buzzard.—This species seems to have arrived in 
rather considerable numbers on the eastern coast during the month 
of October. The first came to hand on the 20th of October, from 
Yarmouth, and proved on dissection to be a male; the second, also 
‘a male, on the 3rd of November, was killed on Gunton Cliff, near 
Lowestoft; on the 5th of the same month I received a female, killed 
at Palling, on the Norfolk coast; three days after another female 
from Leiston, Suffolk; and on the 23rd a male from Burlingham, 
near Norwich. In December I received a male (a very small bird), 
on the 8th, from Yarmouth, and on the 23rd another male was shot 
at Hareland. All these specimens were immature birds, and passed 
into my hands. I heard of many others being seen in various parts 
of the two counties, showing that they were pretty well dispersed. 
The roughlegged buzzard apparently prefers those localities where 
rabbits are in the greatest abundance, these animals apparently 
constituting their principal food, as shown by their stomachs being 
partially filled with rabbits’ fur. In the stomach of one I examined 
I found the remains of a large water vole; and in the stomach of 
the last-named buzzard were the remains of a large common brown 
rat, the head, legs, and tail of which were swallowed whole. 
All the specimens were in good plumage, and rather fat in 
condition. 
Montagu’ Harrier.—An example was obtained, on the 18th of 
December, at Burgh St. Peter, which proved to be an immature 
male, a few feathers of the mature dress showing over some parts 
of its plumage. 
Great Gray Shrike.—1 have seen but one example this season ; 
