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A Eed-neeked Phalarope was sent me in the flesh from 

 Yarmouth, shot on Breyclon on Sept. 4th, and another was 

 seen at the same time and on the same date exactly on 

 which a specimen was killed there in 1881. There was 

 somewhat a paucity of migratory waders at Yarmouth early in 

 the month, though including Knots, Pigmy Curlews, and 

 Golden Plovers (still with much black on the breast) and several 

 Greenshanks; more than usual of this species. Terns, both 

 Common and Lesser, were leaving about this time. Eedstarts 

 were still seen on the coast about Yarmouth late in the month, 

 as well as many Golden-crested Wrens ; and Siskins had arrived 

 at Overstrand on the 18th, and Caister Denes on the 20th. 

 Numbers of Titmice, Great, Blue, Marsh, and Long-tailed, in 

 plantations near the sea ; also a good many Kingfishers about 

 Breydon water, of which, I regret to say, ten or twelve were shot, 

 whether migrants or residents. 



On the 21st a Hoopoe was killed near Barton, and another 

 siDecimen, some time this month, at Sheringham. 



Towards the end of September there seems to have been a 

 very mixed assortment of waders at Yarmouth ; and, in a list 

 sent me by Mr. G. Smith, of birds shot on Breydon and 

 on the beach between the 16th and the 25th, I find Little Stint, 

 Reeve, Oyster-catcher, Greenshank, Dunlin, Sanderling, Bar- and 

 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Turn- 

 stone, Curlew, and Golden Plover. 



A single Snow Bunting was seen on the beach as early as 

 September 16th. Some Honey Buzzards appear to have 

 arrived on the coast in the last week of September, as one 

 was trapped at Northrepps on the 30th, and another, I under- 

 stand, occurred at Flegg-Burgh near the same time, and at 

 Lound, near Lowestoft, a third (all immature) about the 26th. 



On the 3rd of October Snow Buntings appeared in con- 

 siderable numbers on the Denes at Yarmouth, where about a 

 score were netted, and I received three pairs for my aviary. 

 An immature Hobby was taken on a smack off Yarmouth on the 

 9th, and Bramblings were plentiful in the same neighbourhood 

 on the 13th. On the 5th an immature Little Gull was shot on 

 Breydon. A Hoopoe was killed at Horsey on the 9th. On the 

 morning of the 12th a Woodcock was shot on Yarmouth Denes, 

 from a fresh flight, and about a dozen in that neighbourhood by 



