THE ZooLOGIsT—OcTOBER, 1876. 5107 
about three young ones each season. The eggs were hard sat on 
by about the 29th of April this year, and the old birds are said 
to arrive almost to a day in March and leave as punctually in 
September. One young one last year got entangled in a bow-net, 
but was fortunately rescued in time. 
Gunton Heronry.—This thriving colony continues to increase, 
at least forty birds having been counted at their nesting haunt at 
the beginning of this season. 
Great Spotted Woodpecker.—A single bird seen at Northrepps 
on the 28th. 
Little Owl.—A very small owl, supposed to be Carine noctua, 
which had been seen at Northrepps on the 18th of May, was gee 
observed near the same spot on the 16th of June. 
Hooded Crow.—One seen at Northrepps on the 22nd. 
Pochards and Tufted Ducks nesting in Norfolk.—T last 
year recorded (Zool. 8.8. 4634) that I had seen, on one of our 
Norfolk Meres, three pairs of tufted ducks in the first week of 
June, and that from the actions of one hen bird I strongly suspected 
her nest, or a young brood, was not far off. This season I have 
pleasure in announcing that the nesting of the tufted duck in this 
favoured locality is an ascertained fact, a female having been 
flushed from her nest of six eggs on the 29th of May, two females 
and four males of this species being seen. At the same time and 
place, also, several pochards were found breeding, two females 
having broods of young ones, and one a nest of six eggs. 
Stilt Plover.—Since I recorded, last year, the occurrence of two 
specimens of this rare wader in Norfolk,—one at Ingham on the 
26th of May and one at Ditchingham about the end of July,— 
I have ascertained that a bird of this species, either a third 
example or possibly the same subsequently shot at Ditchingham, 
was observed on several occasions, in June, in the Hellesdon 
meadows, about two miles from Norwich. Mr. John Henry 
Walter, who resides at Hellesden, informs me that he first saw 
the bird on the 6th of June, and described it in his note-book 
at the time as having “long red legs, white body, and black 
pointed wings, about the size of a plover. It flew like a heron, 
with its legs out behind it.” Altogether he saw it about 
half-a-dozen times, always about the same locality, and could 
have shot it easily as it flew close to his boat, or when feeding on 
the land. 
