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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES. 



Vol. VIII.] JANUARY, 1884. [No. 85. 



OKNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK. 



Bx T. E. GuNN, F.L.S. 



Since the publication of my former notes in * The Zoologist ' 

 for 1880 (pp. 49-54) so many demands have been made upon the 

 spare time at my disposal that I regret I have been unable until 

 now to prepare any further notes for publication. The following 

 remarks on specimens which have since then passed through my 

 hands may, I hope, prove of interest to your readers. 



OspREY.— A fine male Osprey was killed at Westleton, near 

 Saxmundham, in Suffolk, on September 26th, 1881. Its last 

 meal I found had consisted of a small roach, the teeth and other 

 hard bony parts of which I found in its stomach. It measured 

 5 ft. 4 in. across its fully-extended wings, 2 ft. in length from 

 beak to tail, and weighed 2 lb. 10 oz. An adult female, killed at 

 Lowestoft on October 7th, 1882, and sent me the following day, 

 weighed 3 lb. 9 oz., and measured over six feet across its extended 

 wings ; the feathers on the breast of this bird were very ragged, 

 being cut and broken. 



Kite.— An adult female bird of this species was picked up 

 dead on the sea-beach at Aldborough, in Suffolk, on Sept. 23rd, 

 1881 ; evidently exhausted in its migration to this coast, it had 

 dropped into the sea and was drowned. It was washed ashore in 

 a particularly fresh condition, and I found no marks on its body 

 to indicate its having received any injury to account for death. 

 The plumage was in perfect condition, and the body rather fat. 

 Its weight I found to be 2 lb. 8^- oz. ; total length from tip of beak 

 to end of tail, 26^ in. ; in the extreme measurement of its fully- 

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