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Terns.— A flock of these birds were seen off Lowestoft on the 

 2nd, and again on the 9th, of October. 



House Martins. — Nine or ten together were seen early in the 

 morning of the 9th of October, flying direct out to sea. Four 

 young birds still frequented the esplanade up to the 18th of 

 November. 



Shore Larks.— On the 15th of October Mr. Barton sent me 

 a Shore Lark, one of two he had met with that morning on the 

 north beach ; and on the 26th a pair were shot on the Lowestoft 

 denes. 



Snow Bunting.— Very large flocks frequented the shore and 

 denes about the middle of November, and on the 18th Mr. Barton 

 saw one perched on a tree at Lowestoft, almost in the town, and 

 one then flying round it. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NATAL. 

 By Majors E. A. Butler and H W. Feilden, and Capt. S. G. Reid. 



(Continued from p. 303.) 



Mirafra africana, Smith, Bufous-naped Lark.— Beid procured 

 two specimens of this bird near Pietermaritzburg, one on the 

 20th April, and another on the 5th December. Also a male, 

 developed for breeding, at Blaauw Krantz, on the 23rd November. 

 The last-named made a curious flapping noise in flight, perching 

 on the tops of the high bushes.. 



Macronyx capensis (Linn.), Orange-throated Lark. — Uni- 

 versally distributed and extremely common. Besides its peculiar 

 "mewing" cry, it has a rapid, spasmodic, but not unpleasant 

 song, which it utters only when on the wing, and which is 

 apparently confined to the breeding- season. Never seen in 

 flocks. Fresh eggs were taken in October and November. A 

 nest found by Butler on the 9th November near the Ingagane 

 Biver contained two eggs, incubated, white, well marked with 

 dusky spots. 



Anthus coffer, Sundev., Cape Pipit. — Common at the Ingagane 

 Biver, near Newcastle, where Beid obtained four specimens in June 

 and July, feeding on the bare patches round the stone cattle " kraals." 

 He also met with it near Ladysmith in November, and obtained 

 the eggs from two nests on the 18th and 19th of that month. The 



