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March, but are supposed not ‘to have remained to breed. A 
Rough-legged Buzzard was shot at Potter Heigham on the 14th. 
Bramblings were plentiful about Yarmouth during the frosts, and 
a Grey Wagtail was shot at Yarmouth on the 10th. A large flock 
of Geese appeared on Breydon on the 14th, just after the storms 
of wind and snow; and three Grey-lag Geese on the 24th were 
killed out of a flock of seven. Mr. Edward Boult, of Potter 
Heigham, informed Mr. Southwell that a fine Fork-tailed Kite 
flew over him, about thirty yards high, on the 21st. 
On April 4th a specimen of the so-called “‘ Hairy Water-hen”’ 
was shot near Norwich. (See paper on, and list of similar speci- 
mens, by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., Trans. Norfolk and Norwich 
Nat. Soe. vol. iii. p.581.) Single Woodcocks were seen at North- 
repps on the 10th and 15th; a Hobby at Northrepps on the 19th, 
and a pair of Shelducks shot on Breydon on the 12th. A Hoopoe 
was shot at Horstead on the 25th, and a pair of Twites were netted 
at Yarmouth on the 15th—rarely seen there in spring. An adult 
male Common Buzzard, just beginning to moult, was trapped at 
Northrepps on the 27th; and Mr. G. Smith informs me he saw 
an Osprey in the first week in April, flying over the Caister 
marshes from the sea. Lesser and Black Terns visited Breydon, 
April 30th. 
A single Pied Flycatcher was seen at Northrepps on May 9th, 
on which day, as well as on the 12th, two Landrails were picked 
up dead under the telegraph-wires, one near Norwich, the other 
at Brandon, killed, most probably, on their migratory arrival, for 
on the 13th one was caught alive in the west porch of Cromer 
church, and about the same date Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., saw one 
flying over a road at Northrepps. One appeared at Clippesby, 
near Yarmouth, on-the 5th, and another at Winterton on the 9th, 
A Hoopoe was shot at Hanworth, near Cromer, on the 10th; and 
one at Lowestoft on April 25th. An adult Kentish Plover was 
shot on Breydon on the 83rd, and another on the 9th; and I saw 
a Black-tailed Godwit on the 12th, and one or two Bar-tailed, in 
change. Sanderling assuming summer plumage, 16th and 2lst. 
Three fine Turnstones, and several good black-breasted Grey 
Plover, on the 21st. On the 20th I saw, on Cromer beach, a 
single Whimbrel, wonderfully tame, and two from Yarmouth on 
the 21st; one was shot at Yarmouth, April 12th—a very early 
date. A Land Dotterel was shot at Halvergate, on the 9th, in 
