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from the coast appeared again, in many instances, in our bird- 

 stuffers' shops : — 



Honey Buzzards ...... 21 



Common Buzzards ...... 10 



Seen, not identified ...... 4 



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 Of these birds, reckoning botli species, thirteen occurred at 

 Yarmouth, or on the Broads adjoining, and at Fritton and Somer- 

 leyton, on the borders of Suffolk ; eleven in the neighbourhood 

 of Cromer and Northrepps ; three inland, and one at Hunstanton, 

 near Lynn ; the only record I find from that part of the coast. 

 Of five, localities not known. We have had no such visitation of 

 Honey Buzzards since September, 1841, and the numbers then 

 seen or procured fell short of the present record. With the 

 exception of a Buzzard, seen inland, on the 21st, at Cranmer, 

 near Fakenham, the first indication of this raptorial invasion was 

 the appearance, on the morning of the 24th, of three Common 

 Buzzards, three Sparrowhawks, and a Harrier, washed up dead on 

 the beach at Yarmouth, as stated by Mr. Patterson in a letter to 

 ■ the ' Daily Press,' drowned, evidently, by some mischance on 

 their way to our shores. On the 23rd a Honey Buzzard had been 

 taken alive on the Drive at Yarmouth, and a Common Buzzard 

 shot on the North Denes ; but ten, at least, of the specimens 

 included in my list were seen or obtained on the 24th, the rest 

 between that date and the 31st. Two Honey Buzzards were also 

 sent to Norwich on October 1st and 6th, localities not known. 

 I could not ascertain that a single adult bird had appeared amongst 

 the Honey Buzzards. Two young birds, which Mr. Gurney secured 

 alive, were prettily mottled in the immature dress, but died in the 

 spring of the following year. One large Hawk, supposed to be a 

 Buzzard, which was seen soaring at Northrepps on the 27th, was 

 being mobbed by two flocks of small birds, estimated at about two 

 hundred. A Honey Buzzard, which was trapped at a wasps' nest 

 at Southrepps, had dug out a hole big enough to get into, and 

 which, after it was first disturbed, it was seen to enter seven or 

 eight times. A good many Short- eared Owls also put in an 

 appearance during this month, and some, I understood, late in 

 August. On the 15th a Peregrine was seen at Lower Heigham, 

 flying direct for the city. Several Marsh Harriers were killed 



