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Norfolk coast, was caught off Beeston, on the 7th of October, and 

 is now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. 



November. 



Storm Petrel. — Two of these wanderers from the sea coast 

 were brought to Mr. Cole, birdstuffer, of Norwich, having been 

 taken at Harford Bridges, near this city, on November 1st, after 

 a smart gale from the N.W. on the previous night. 



Great Grey Shrike. — Two more specimens, one from Rock- 

 land and one from Brancaster, were sent up to Norwich on the 

 12th, and, near Yarmouth, one was killed at Burgh on the 5th, 

 and another at Ormesby on the 9th. I saw also two others, killed 

 during this month near Norwich. Both of these had fed on mice. 

 The bird from Brancaster, on the 12th, is probably the one 

 recorded in ' The Field,' of November 20th, as having a dead 

 sparrow in its mouth. The same correspondent (from Titchwell) 

 also states, in ' The Field' of November 27th, that he had since 

 seen two others perched on a high fence on the road between 

 Docking and Brancaster, about half a mile from the spot where 

 the first was shot. Mr. Dack, of Holt, had one picked up dead in 

 a chalk-pit there, on the 4th. Mr. Fountaine, of Easton, near 

 Norwich, had also one brought to him alive, near the end of the 

 month. 



Little Crake. — Mr. B. C. Silcock informs me that, in the 

 second week of this month, he received a bird of this species which 

 had been shot in the marshes adjoining Hiekling Broad. 



Common Snipe. — About the middle of this month a fine 

 example of the so-called Russet Snipe, the Scolopax russata of 

 Gould, was shot at East Ruston, and was sent to Mr. Roberts, of 

 Norwich, for preservation. From the bright, ruddy tint of the 

 plumage it was, I should say, a bird of the year, with the beak 

 measuring 2| in., a marked feature in this large variety of the 

 Common Snipe, for I cannot credit it with specific rank. 



December. 

 Shore Lark. — On the 2nd Mr. G. Smith, of Yarmouth, sent 

 me a pair of these birds alive which had been caught in a clap-net 

 that morning at Yarmouth. They were fine, healthy birds, and, on 

 being turned into my aviary, consorted at once with the Snow 

 Buntings. Mr. Power shot two out of four seen on Salthouse 



