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same time by a reliable authority running up the trunk of a tree 
at Brooke, also near Norwich. On the lst two Grey Geese were 
seen flying at Horsey, and five on Breydon. On the 24th a 
White-fronted Goose was seen on Heigham Sounds. An immature 
Sclavonian Grebe was shot at Flegg Burgh on the 9th, and 
another near Yarmouth on the 10th. This species was unusually 
numerous on our coast in the winter of 1882-83, but chiefly young 
birds. An immature Black-throated Diver was shot on the Yar- 
mouth coast on the 14th. A great scarcity of both wildfowl and 
waders on Breydon was noticed this month. Two Shelducks, 
a few Wigeon, and one male Pintail Duck, on Breydon, on the 
12th, and a few Grey Godwits are the only species worth notice, 
except the early appearance of Garganey at Potter Heigham on 
Feb. 24th. On the 19th an adult male Goosander was shot, one 
of sixteen which, varying in numbers, had frequented Gunton 
Lake and Antingham Ponds for some weeks, the flock comprising 
four adult males and twelve females. An immature Shag, probably 
storm-driven, was shot off the spire of Attleborough Church on 
the 22nd. On the 12th and 14th large flocks of small Gulls, no 
doubt of the Black-headed species, were observed at Northrepps, 
passing inland from the coast. One noticed on the 12th had a 
pure black head. An enormous flock of Lapwings, which extended 
- a great distance when fairly on the wing, were seen to rise from 
the marshes by the river Yare, opposite Thorpe Asylum, on the 
24th. The Rock Dove has never been included in the list of 
migrants to the Norfolk coast, from the obvious difficulty of 
deciding whether specimens obtained on the coast have not 
escaped from the trap-shooter, or strayed from the dovecote; 
but as Mr. Hancock includes it amongst the species nesting, to 
his knowledge, “occasionally in the cliffs of Marsden, and in 
other localities on the sea-coast, both in Northumberland and 
Durham, where the cliffs are high,” there seems no reason why 
real wild Rock Doves from those counties, and still more northern 
localities, should not voluntarily visit Norfolk at times, and the 
species be added to our list, if they can be identified. I am led 
to make these remarks, since, in notes supplied to me from Yar- 
mouth, Mr. G. Smith mentions examples of this species, one or 
two at a time (half a dozen or more in a bunch might suggest a 
shooting-match) as brought into Yarmouth from the neighbour- 
hood, during January and February, 1883 (and on previous 
