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five, all taken in " hingles." These must have been brought in 

 about January 29th. He does not think any were taken before 

 the storm on the 18th, and he paid afterwards for seventeen dozen 

 more. Probably all were caught between January 18th and the 

 3rd or 4th of February, all the fields being nearly bare of snow 

 from the high wind on the 18th. The Larks staye'd some time, 

 and did not lose condition till just at the end of their visit to that 

 neighbourhood. The great passage was on the 17th, the day before 

 the storm ; and he heard there was a great passage on the same 

 day at Lyndhurst, in Hampshire, all the birds going S.W. 



February. 



Wild Geese. — A good many Brents were shot on Breydon 

 early this month, after the frost had abated ; and eleven Geese, 

 supposed to be Greylags, were seen there on the 5th, and some 

 Wild Swans at the same time. About thirty Geese, probably 

 Pink-footed, appeared on Breydon on the 15th. 



Bittern. — One shot near Yai'mouth on the 9th. 



Goosander. — A fine adult female was shot at Potter Heigham 

 on the 12th. A female was also seen, with other fowl, on Gunton 

 Lake, near Cromer, on the 26th. 



Great Crested Grebe. — A young bird was shot near Yar- 

 mouth on the 6th, and some half-dozen specimens were seen in 

 Yarmouth market between the 1st and 15th of this month. One 

 was already in part summer plumage. 



Red-necked Grebe.— One sent up to Norwich from the coast 

 on the 13th. 



Ringed Guillemot. — An example of this variety of the 

 Common Guillemot was shot at Yarmouth during the last week 

 of this month. It occurs but rarely on our coast. 



Gannet. — Like the Glaucous Gulls, an unusual number of 

 these birds, some fine adult specimens, were brought to Yarmouth 

 by the smacksmen from the North Sea this winter. 



Sclavonian Grebe. — On the 26th an adult bird, in winter 

 plumage, was killed near Yarmouth. 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. — A specimen was shot at 

 Harleston early in the month, decidedly rare in that neigh- 

 bourhood. Many Green Woodpeckers were either shot or found 

 dead during the severe frost. 



Shore Lark. — Two shot at Wells on the 12th. 



