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the 15th. Short-eared Owls also appeared there about the same 

 date. On the 12th, at Blakeney, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., found 

 numbers of Song Thrushes on the sand-hills, apparently just 

 arrived. Gray Crows, first seen at Northrepps on the 9th, 

 arrived in large numbers at Yarmouth on the 22nd, and some 

 Fieldfares. On the 20th also, at Northrepps, a considerable 

 flight of Jackdaws was seen passing inland. There seems to 

 have been an arrival also of Magpies about Weybourne and 

 Sheringham on the 10th ; and, on the 17th at Northrepps, an 

 apparent immigration of Eobins, as observed by Mr. J. H. 

 Guruey, jun. A good many Ring Ouzels appeared at Yarmouth 

 and its vicinity between the Gth and 15th of the month (and 

 several at Weybourne in September). Mr. Smith told me he had 

 seven or eight specimens brought to him. And, of other birds 

 in that locality, seen or shot, I may mention a Peregrine at 

 Caister on the 14th, an immature Eichardson's Skua on Breydon, 

 same date ; a Great Snipe at Bradwell on the 18th, and one at 

 Lopham on the 28th, weighing 8|- ounces ; also a Grey Shrike 

 on the North Denes on the 26th ; and a young male Merlin at 

 Barton on the 23rd. 



A good many Spotted Bails were met with in the Yarmouth 

 neighbourhood this month. The chief ornithological event, how- 

 ever, of the month was the arrival, in unusual numbers, all along 

 the coast, of the tiny little Golden-crested Wren ; their flights 

 occurring at intervals of some days, commencing in the previous 

 month, and noticeable up to about the 20th of October. 



A single bird, which flew, exhausted, into a room in Dr. 

 Beverley's cottage at Overstrand, close to the sea, on the 

 morning of the 5th, marks the date, no doubt, of one flight ; 

 and on the 8th they were abundant in a plantation on the 

 Caister road, near Yarmouth, and Mr, Smith described them 

 in the same locality, and in like shelter, at Gorleston, as " very 

 thick," on the 15th. In the neighbourhood of Cromer, Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., noticed a very large arrival on the 13th, and they 

 were numerous in the garden of Colney House, Cromer, on the 

 18th and 19th; and just at this date, twelve were picked up dead 

 against the Hunstanton Lighthouse. 



Among the Starlings, Sk3'larks, and other migrants killed at 

 the Cromer Light, this month, was a specimen of the Knot 

 Sandpiper, a very exceptional circumstance. 



