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immature plumage, and two adults seen. Six Knots, in good red 
plumage, were killed on Breydon on the 30th. Two Spoonbills 
were seen on Breydon on May Ist, but were not shot. Two 
Avocets also were seen on Breydon on the 9th, and one shot. 
The abundance of the Green Woodpecker, in certain favourable 
and wooded localities, is pretty well established by the fact, that 
a thoroughly reliable authority informs me, that in the middle 
of May, between Norwich and Thurning, where he went rook- 
shooting, and returning by Haverland and Swannington, he saw 
not less than a score of these birds. During the summer of 1883 
a pair of Wood Pigeons and a pair of Turtle Doves nested in 
Mr. C. Barnard’s garden, next Park Lane, on the Unthank’s Road. 
TI have never known the Wood Pigeon nest so near this city before ; 
but, so far back as 1850, [remember Turtle Doves nesting in the 
Wilderness garden on Bracondale. For the first time, a pair of 
Twites nested and hatched young in my aviary; and a young 
Sky Lark was hatched on the same day. These were not reared, 
however, from the difficulty of Supplying any suitable food for 
the nestlings that would not be devoured by all the other birds. 
Young Greenfinches seem to thrive on the seed softened in the 
crops of the old birds. An Osprey was seen on Breydon on 
May 14th. Mr. Smith informs me that a female Golden Oriole, 
in greenish yellow plumage, was shot at Chedgrave on May 19th. 
An immature Marsh Harrier, with the yellow head, was killed at 
Burgh, by Yarmouth, on the 29th, and a young male Montagu’s 
Harrier at Horsey, earlier in the month. 
On June lst an Osprey was seen on a willow at Downham, 
near Brandon, by Mr. F. Norgate; and an adult female Short- 
eared Owl was shot at Drayton on the 12th, but from its worn 
plumage and poor condition it had most likely been previously 
wounded, and unable to migrate. Several pairs of Garganey were 
known to have nested and had young broods in the Broad district 
of the Bure this month. Mr. B. C. Silcock informed me that, 
when sailing on Barton Broad on May 8th, he had the pleasure of 
watching a pair of White-winged Black Terns hovering over the 
water, and occasionally settling on a post. On the 10th a male 
of this species, no doubt one of the pair, was shot from a post on 
Hickling Broad. It was alone at the time. When fresh-killed 
the bill is said to have been brown with a tinge of lake-red at the 
gape of the mandibles; irides hair-brown; feet and legs bright 
