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Wigeon on the Broad waters at Potter Heigham early in October. 
A Gadwall and some Pintails were taken in Westwick decoy about 
the 30th. A Great Spotted Woodpecker was shot at Somerton 
on the 10th. Hundreds of Golden Plover and Lapwings were 
seen in the South Breydon marshes on Noy. Ist, when a flight of 
Woodcocks occurred, and several were shot on the Denes, and 
another flight seems to have come about the 24th; a single bird 
was found dead at Northrepps on the 26th, having flown against 
a building in the night. Several Short-eared Owls appeared in 
Yarmouth market during this month; Snipe not plentiful. A few 
Dunlins on Breydon on the 12th, and a Purple Sandpiper was 
shot there on the 13th. A Water Rail was taken alive on board 
a boat off Yarmouth on the 12th. On the 24th a flock of about 
fifty Golden Plover passed inland at Northrepps, going west. 
Hooded and Carrion Crows were still arriving at Yarmouth 
between Nov. Ist and 6th. A Grey Crow shot on the 25th had 
the mandibles twisted like a Crossbill. Two Swallows were seen 
at Northrepps as late as the 16th. A good many Cole Tits were 
seen in plantations on the Caistor road, near Yarmouth, on the 
4th, and both these and Long-tailed Tits appeared in the same 
locality in the previous month. A good number of Rock Pipits 
arrived about the 22nd on the walls of Breydon and the Denes. 
The following species were also identified by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
jun., by wings sent of specimens killed at Lynn Well lightship, 
between the 4th and 9th of this month:—Thrushes (twelve), 
Redwing, Chaffinches (ten), Blackbird, Snow Bunting (four), 
Wheatear, Brambling, Tree Sparrow, Fieldfares (four), Knot 
Sandpipers (four), Storm Petrels (six), Jack Snipe, Dunlin Sand- 
pipers (three). 
The chief ornithological event of the winter was the appearance 
of some half-dozen, probably more, Hider Ducks, all, so far as 
I could learn, either adult females or immature birds. It was 
not till the 2nd of December that I learnt from Mr. G. Smith, of 
Yarmouth, a female Eider had been seen, but not shot, on Flegg 
Burgh Broad on Noy. 22nd, and this probably marks the period 
of arrival of these birds on our coast. A part, evidently, when 
shot at and dispersed on Breydon, passed inland, and frequented 
fresh waters for a time. ‘This seems apparent from the fact that 
an adult female, said to have been seen with others, in the same 
locality, was killed with a stone on December 11th, upon a small 
