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Swift. — A single bird was seen at Lowestoft as late as the 

 21st of September, probably the same straggler seen two days 

 before in the same neighbourhood. 



Purple Sandpiper. — About the first week in September a 

 bird of this species was shot near Yarmouth, and having been 

 preserved was shown to me on the 25th. Another was killed on 

 the beach at Lowestoft by Mr. Barton on the 2Gth of November. 



Kentish Plover. — On the morning of the 27th of September, 

 about fi. 30 a.m., Mr. Barton, when on the north beach, observed 

 some birds running rapidly along the margin of a brackish pool 

 of water, near the fishing pier, and from their size and actions, 

 though varying somewhat in colouring, took them for the ordinary 

 Ring Plover. As he was watching them a shore gunner came up 

 who shot at, but missed, them, and this man told Barton at the 

 time they were Kentish Plovers, as he had met with the same kind 

 before. Examples of this species, which I showed Barton shortly 

 after, did not quite settle the point in his mind ; but some weeks 

 later, happening to meet the same gunner, he told him that in the 

 afternoon of the 27th of September he went again to the same 

 spot in search of the birds, and succeeded in shooting one. This 

 he had stuffed ; and on showing it to Mr. Barton it proved, as the 

 man had said, a true Kentish Plover. When first seen these birds 

 were running about at a great pace, constantly thrusting their 

 bills under tufts of grass, and retreating as if extracting some- 

 thing ; and as they took wing they uttered a plaintive cry of 

 two notes. 



Migration of Finches, &c. — On the 27th of September, at 

 the same time as the Plover, Mr. Barton also observed, on the 

 beach and north denes of Lowestoft, flocks of Grey Linnets, 

 Sky Larks, Siskins, Pied Wagtails, and Wheatears. Single 

 Wheatears were also seen on the denes on the 8th and 9th of 

 October. 



Solitary Snipe. — One, brought to a Lowestoft bird-stuffer on 

 the 9th of September, had been killed close by ; and another was 

 shot in the marshes at Carlton Colville on the 17th. 



Red-throated Diver. — About the 20th of September, Barton 

 purchased a good specimen, still retaining the red throat. 



Honey Buzzard. — In the last week of the month Mr. Free- 

 man, of Lowestoft, had sent him to stuff a Honey Buzzard, shot 

 at Wangford. 



