NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 3827 
orange-red. On the 22nd a male Montagu’s Harrier, one of a 
pair which had a nest this season in the marshes about Hickling, 
was shot and sent up to Norwich. It had still some brownish 
tints upon the back and shoulders, though otherwise in adult 
plumage, and some of the tail-feathers, unmoulted, were worn to 
mere stumps. The female was subsequently shot at, but missed, 
as she rose from the nest, and four eggs were taken, but not all 
at the same time. ‘The hen bird still frequented the neighbour- 
hood till the beginning of July. An eye-witness thus described 
to me the actions of these birds. The female sits as soon as the 
first egg is laid. The male attends upon her, and seeks for prey, 
with which he flies round her, giving a sharp ery, and drops it a 
little distance from the nest. The female then takes wing, picks 
up the prey from the ground, and, alighting with it still further 
from the nest, makes her meal, when she again settles on her 
eggs. 
Two Grey Crows were seen at Scratby, near the shore, on 
July 15th. On Breydon, Common Sandpipers, Greenshanks, and 
Dunlins appeared on the 18th; six Whimbrel on the 22nd; a 
Little Stint on the 27th; a flock of twenty Whimbrel, two Pigmy 
Curlews, and Common Sandpiper on the 29th; and on the 31st 
six Curlews, Ring Plovers, and Whimbrel. On the 8th a young 
Sanderling; 9th, four immature Spotted Redshanks shot out of 
six, four Greenshanks shot out of six, and two Whimbrels; on 
the 11th, Knots, and a Wood Sandpiper, and Turnstone; 13th, a 
Green Sandpiper, and an immature Wood Sandpiper; on the 17th 
two Spotted Redshanks, dark birds, and one Reeve seen; one 
Common Sandpiper on the 21st. On the 10th and 11th a young 
Black Tern appeared on Breydon, and immature Common, Arctic 
and Lesser Terns. Several Garganey were shot at Ranworth on 
the Ist, and three Pochards were killed on Breydon out of seven 
on the 17th. Two adult and one young Great Crested Grebes 
on the 18th. 
On the night of August 6th, at 10 o’clock, I heard Plover over 
the city, very dark at the time. At Cambridge, the night before, 
I heard the same notes over the town. On the 8th, about 10 p.m, 
after a heavy rain, with dark clouds about, heard mingled notes 
of birds passing over my garden, Plover and small T'ringe 
apparently amongst them, and one Curlew very noisy, going 
north-east to south-west. On August 24th, at 8 p.m., a single 
