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the Yarmouth naturalists found out what they were. On the 
29th a drake in change was shot at Buckenham, which I saw 
before it was skinned. There is an element of doubt about all 
these Gadwalls, as Lord Walsingham and Mr. Fountaine keep a 
stock in West Norfolk, the produce of tame birds, which are now 
thoroughly established and able to take care of themselves. 
On September 6th I shot five Little Stints out of a flock of 
about twice that number on the Breydon broad, and some young 
Pigmy Curlews, which appear at this particular season to be 
equally common with Dunlins, from which they are easily recog- 
nised at a great distance by their slightly larger size. A young 
Red-necked Phalarope, now in my collection, had been shot on 
the 4th, which, considering that five shots were fired at it, was 
not as much spoilt as might have been expected. It was taken 
to Mr. Lown, the birdstuffer, who had another in, shot at Hopton, 
near Yarmouth, on the 30th. 
On the 24th a Grey-lag Goose was shot by a boatman named 
Gibbs, and others are reported by Mr. Smith as brought to him 
on the same day. I saw six Wild Geese flying over Sprowston 
on the 22nd, and thought it early for them. On the 26th I shot 
a Greenshank. I may here mention a Smew, in my possession, 
killed on the Broad on the 15th January, which has partially, but 
by no means entirely, assumed the white garb of an adult. An 
adult female was killed with it (ascertained to be so by dissection), 
which has black cheeks, which used, before the subject was 
worked out, to be supposed to be the mark of a young male. 
Another female killed four days later, and sexed by dissection, 
has no black at all on the cheek, and is no doubt the younger 
bird of the two. 
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OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
IceLaAnD Fatcon 1n IneLanp.—Of the two Gyrfalcons, the Green- 
lander (F’. candicans, J. F. Gmel. j,has several times been captured in 
Ireland, and we have in this Museum the very specimen which was killed 
many years ago at Belmullet, Co. Mayo, as already noticed by my friend 
Mr. Warren in ‘ The Zoologist’ for 1877, p. 234. But the scarce Icelander 
(F. islandus, J. F. Gmel.) is only very dubiously included by Thompson, 
and is altogether omitted as an Irish bird by Watters, and in Prof. Newton's 
