366 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK FOR 1880. 

 By HenIry Stevenson, F.L.S. 



I much regret that, through ill health and other causes, my 

 Ornithological Notes for 1880 have been so long delayed; but 

 I send them, even thus late, for publication, rather than break 

 the series which for so many years has found a place in the 

 annual volumes of ' The Zoologist.' I hope shortly to complete 

 those for 1881. 



January. 



Bernicle Goose. — On the 6th five out of a flock of seven of 

 this by no means common species were shot at Horsey. The 

 weather was exceptionally mild at the time, but they had, no doubt, 

 like those recorded in February, 1879, been driven to our coast 

 during the severe frost earlier in the season. 



Little Grebe. — During the frost a Little Grebe was taken 

 alive on the shore at Blakeney, and another at Mr. Buxton's 

 residence at Fritton was found consorting with the domestic fowls, 

 evidently " hard up " and frozen out from the Broad. One 

 Norwich birdstuffer had five. 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. — An adult male was killed at 

 Holkham about the 30th, and during the month Mr. F. E. Bird 

 shot a female at Winterton decoy. 



White-fronted Goose. — A female bird of this species, some- 

 what small in size but well barred on the under parts, was shot 

 on Breydon on the 5th. 



Brent Goose. — Mr. F. Norgate thus describes a singular 

 variety of the Brent Goose (a male bird, killed by Mr. Gapps, at 

 Blakeney, about the end of January), which he first saw on April 

 27th, in the hands of Mr. Dack, a birdstuffer, at Holt: — "The 

 plumage of the upper and under tail-coverts, vent, and cervical 

 ring are white ; the breast, head and quills are greyish brown ; the 

 rest of the plumage is very pale brownish grey, almost the colour 

 of Columba risoria ; the irides (glass) are blackish brown ; legs, 

 toes, claws, webs, beak and nail are just painted pinkish red." 

 Dack assured him he had taken pains to colour these parts exactly 

 as they were naturally, and believed he had succeeded as near as 

 he possibly could with paint. 



