1126 The Zoologist — March, 1868. 



Ornithological Notes from Norfolk. 

 By Henry Stevenson, Esq., F.L.S. 



(Continued from S. S. 1014). 



November, 1867. 



Crossbill. — On the 19th one red male and two females were shot at 

 Mousehole, near Norwich. 



Snipe. — A rather unusual number of these birds (Scolopax gallinago), 

 after three rime-frosts, were met with in the marshes between Norwich 

 and Yarmouth, about the 20th, and on the 30th thirty or forty couple 

 appeared for sale in our fish-market, killed nearly all within five or_ 

 six miles of the city. The weather not severe enough for much 

 fowl. 



Spotted Crake. — A bird of this species, as Dr. Lowe informs me, 

 was killed at Gayton on the 30th of November, and sent to the Lynn 

 Museum. 



December, 1867. 



This month commenced with severe gales, followed by snow 

 and sharp frost, which fully accounts for the snipe shifting their 

 quarters and the large flocks of small birds observed everywhere in the 

 county just prior to the change. 



Gannet. — A fine adult bird, carried inland by the gale, was taken 

 alive on the 7th at Harford Bridge, close to this city, between twenty 

 and thirty miles from the nearest point on the coast, and was exhibited 

 at a fishmonger's shop as a " wandering albatross." 



Shovellers. — On the 11th, in our fish-market, I saw a young male, 

 which, like one sent to a birdstuffer in Norwich on the 20th of 

 November, had the point of the wings and lesser wing-coverts blue, 

 as in adults ; and on the 13th of December I saw an old male, killed a 

 few days before, which had not yet completed its change, and still 

 showed traces of its temporary female dress. 



Peregrine. — A fine old male was killed at Haverland, about the 

 28th, and besides being a very small bird was frightfully thin. On 

 dissection the stomach was found empty, but on the outer surface 

 were a considerable number of long thin worms, averaging about 

 b\ inches in length. 



Whiteeyed Duck. — A specimen of this rare pochard, said to have 



