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its gills I found several tape-worms averaging about five inches ; 
the fish was broken across the shoulders by the strong beak of its 
captor previous to being swallowed, and was doubled-up in the 
bird’s stomach ; from the fish’s intestines I took an entozoon six 
inches in length, and a quarter of an inch in breadth; this was 
alive and uninjured, and thus bears out the fact of these 
parasites being introduced from one host to another. 
Coor.—On November 6th, 1883, a Coot was caught in one of 
the signal-cords of a railway-carriage at Thorpe Station, on the 
Great Eastern Railway. The bird had by some means entangled 
its legs, and was held a prisoner until released by a porter, who 
brought it tome. It lived four days without food, refusing all 
kinds of tempting morsels placed before it. The stomach con- 
tained a quantity of silt, and a small bivalve or two. 
Eayprian Goosr. — An adult male, brought me on January 
24th, 1884, was shot on the marshes at Cringleford, near 
Norwich. It exhibited no symptoms of having been kept in 
confinement, but whether a genuine migrant or a wanderer from 
some lake in the county it is impossible to say. The Egyptian 
Goose has been repeatedly shot both on Breydon and in the 
Yarmouth Roads, and is often seen during the winter migration 
along the eastern coast. 
GoosanpER. — This species was unusually abundant during 
the winter of 1883-84 in the eastern district. I received an 
adult female from Oulton Broad on December 14th; in this 
I found two perch, one measuring seven inches and the other 
five inches and a half in length. When pike-fishing on Kimberley 
Lake on February 4th, 1884, I counted fourteen of these birds, 
which I examined with my glass, one being an adult male; 
these and a number of wild duck were consorting with the semi- 
domesticated fowl on the water. The old keeper told me the 
Goosanders had been there several weeks ; they seemed well able 
to take care of themselves, something like two hundred yards 
being the nearest approach allowed. On the 19th of the same 
month a pair of adult Goosanders were killed at one shot on a 
small lake in Honningham Park; the female was sent to me the 
following day quite fresh; the male, however, was not found 
until four days later in a reed-bed, by which time decomposition 
had set in; however, by careful treatment I managed to preserve 
it. Lady Bayning, the owner, informed me that the two birds 
