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Woodcock seen in a garden on the 18th; another Little Stint on 
the 24th; a Solitary Snipe with four Jack Snipes was shot on 
the 29th at Potter Heigham. Iam informed that at least fifty 
Kingfishers were shot this autumn in the Yarmouth district, and 
though many of these were no doubt autumnal visitants to our 
coast, some would also be home-bred, and such a wholesale 
destruction is much to be regretted, if it cannot be prevented. 
An immature Eared Grebe was shot on Breydon on the 15th; 
and a male and female at Somerton about the same date. A 
Merlin, taken on a vessel at sea, was brought into Yarmouth on 
September 24th. Two Goosanders, early arrivals, were seen on 
Breydon on the 25th. In ‘The Zoologist’ for 1884 (p. 13), 
Mr. Gunn mentions four or five young Cormorants seen in 
Yarmouth Roads early in September, and he saw one on the 11th 
about one hundred yards off the beach. 
On Breydon and in its vicinity two or three Solitary Snipe 
were shot early in October, and a Purple Sandpiper on the 5th; 
about forty Golden Plover seen on the 9th; on the 12th a Wood- 
cock brought into Yarmouth alive, taken on board a fishing-boat, 
another was shot on the shore on the 16th, and on the 22nd one 
created great excitement in Yarmouth market-place as it flitted 
over the stalls; a Spotted Redshank shot on Breydon, on the 
22nd, ten were shot the same day, mostly on the north Denes, 
a numerous flight of these birds appeared on the North Norfolk 
coast on the 31st; four Spotted Redshanks out of a flock of seven 
were shot in Terrington marsh, near Lynn, on the 27th, by 
Mr. W. D. Ward. A young specimen of the Little Gull was shot 
at Hickling or Potter Heigham on October 7th, and a Great Grey 
Shrike was killed at Horsey on the 9th. A Stormy Petrel was 
brought into Yarmouth, alive, on the 12th, caught on a vessel off 
the coast. A dark immature Richardson’s Skua was killed near 
Yarmouth about the 9th; anda good adult Red-throated Diver 
shot on Breydon on the 16th. A Rough-legged Buzzard was shot 
on Yarmouth Denes on the 20th; and another at St. Olaves, in 
the adjoining county, on the 13th. A male Shore Lark was shot 
at Winterton on the 4th; and others were seen at Yarmouth on 
the 24th and 28th: of four shot on the latter date three were 
immature males. A pied variety of the Ring Ouzel was obtained 
near Yarmouth on the 24th. An adult Red-necked Grebe, in change 
of plumage, was shot on Breydon on the 24th; and a young 
