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by, and two Temminck's Stints. Seven Sanderlings were killed 

 between the 7th and 11th, and a solitary Woodcock appeared 

 near Yarmouth on the 8th, and a Green Sandpiper on the 4th. 

 Again on the 17th, five Bar-tailed Godwits were shot out of a 

 small flock on Breydon, and two Greenshanks on the 22nd : 

 these, and the Kentish Plovers, separately mentioned, exhaust 

 my autumnal list. On the 2nd of November another Spotted 

 Redshank was shot on Breydon South Wall, in winter plumage, 

 a very red (for time of year) Bar-tailed Godwit with but one leg 

 on the 5th, and the same day a slightly red Knot. On the 2nd 

 and 4th very large flocks of Lapwings were seen going west at 

 Northrepps. A Wood Sandpiper was killed on the 5th some- 

 where in the neighbourhood, and on the 19th a Purple Sandpiper 

 on the beach. 



Ducks and Divers. — The commencement of 1881 was any- 

 thing but a gunner's season, as the intense severity of the frost 

 when it did come, and the deep snow which, drifted by the gales, 

 filled roads and railway cuttings in many parts of the county, 

 drove fowl and other birds, migrants and residents alike, to the 

 southward for a time. My notes, therefore, under this head are 

 but few. Sheldrakes seemed to have had a bad time of it, and 

 from the localities from which specimens were sent to our bird- 

 stuffers, I fear most of those that were shot were reared on our 

 coast. A Scaup Duck was killed on the 11th as high up the 

 River Yare as Thorpe Gardens ; and on the 21st a male was 

 picked up, exhausted and nearly buried in the snow, on the toil 

 of the Gas-house Hill, Norwich. Two or three good old males 

 occurred at Yarmouth about the same time, and a fine old male 

 Golden-eye at Hickling on the 27th. Strange to say, when the 

 weather was most severe, towards the end of the month I saw a 

 male Shoveller, anything but a "hard-weather" fowl, in the 

 Norwich fishmarket. In February more old Scaups were met 

 with on Breydon, and a female Velvet Scoter was also shot at 

 Yarmouth on the 3rd. Pintails, Common Scoters, and other fowl 

 appeared about the 10th and 11th, and by the 27th Duck and 

 Mallard, Wigeon and Pochard were plentiful, and three mature 

 Golden-eyes were shot at Somerton on the 26th. A few immature 

 Mergansers and one or two Black-throated Divers were killed 

 during the frost, but I saw none in good plumage. At Ranworth, 

 on the 18th of March, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., found a strange 



