NOTES FROM EAST NORFOLK. 487 
light on the Sailors’ Home. Besides these Mr. Lown, the bird- 
stuffer, told me he had received or heard of seven others. 
That some of these birds were the Honey Buzzard is likely 
enough, for we have had a migration of them also. It is im- 
possible, without seeing them, to be sure of correct identification 
in every case; but there have been seventeen Honey Buzzards, 
for certain. As previous experience would lead us to expect, the 
two other species having been plentiful, not a single Rough-legged 
Buzzard occurred. The Honey Buzzards seem generally to have 
been trapped at wasps’ nests. One taken alive at Southrepps 
which was thus caught had, in the process of demolishing the 
wasps’ nest, scooped out a hole big enough for it to get into. The 
man who took it told my father it came back to the hole seven or 
eight times before he thought of putting a trap down. Another 
was described to me by a keeper as rising from a wasps’ nest, 
which had the appearance as if a dog had been scraping at it. 
On going to look at the place a few days~ afterwards I found the 
Buzzard had been again, and made a hole nearly a foot in diameter, 
revealing all one side of the wasps’ nest. The keeper believed it 
had been every morning, as he had watched the hole getting bigger 
and seen the Buzzard near it. We refrained from the temptation 
of putting a trap down. The scale-like feathers between the eye 
and the beak are an excellent protection from wasp-stings and 
a good mark of distinction between this species and the other 
Buzzards. We have three of these Honey Buzzards alive, and 
I look forward with much interest to watching the gradual change 
in their plumage; they are all very different at present. I have 
not heard that this arrival of Honey Buzzards has yielded one of 
the beautiful white varieties occasionally got, of which two Norfolk 
specimens are figured in the first volume of ‘The Zoologist’ 
(1843, p. 377), nor a single ash-cheeked adult. 
I have been two or three times lately to Breydon “ broad,’ 
near Yarmouth, and have seen and heard of several birds there, 
the chief of which have been a Sandwich Tern, three Kentish 
Plovers, one Temminck’s Stint, two Red-necked Phalaropes, and 
three young Gadwalls. These last I did not see, but I believe 
there was no doubt about them: they were very tame, and were 
with an old drake which escaped. The man who shot them sold 
them to a poulterer named Thomas at the price of ordinary Wild 
Ducks, and as such they were hung up in his shop, but some of 
