86 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. H. A. Macpherson saw a Knot, "in full breeding plumage," 

 and some Dunlin and Ringed Plover, on Stamford Mere, — a 

 locality twenty-five miles from the sea, — on the 23rd of May. 



Mr. G. Smith informs me that a Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa 

 metadata, Vieillot, was shot on the Bure marshes, near Yarmouth, 

 on Sept. 8th, and is now in the collection of Mr. R. W. Chase, 

 who has already recorded it (Zool. 1887, p. 433). On Sept. 24th 

 I picked up, at one of our poulterers, a Solitary Snipe sent from 

 Blickling ; from the dark colour of the back it appeared to be an 

 adult bird, as was another sent to Mr. Gunn from Barton. 



Mr. Southwell obtained a good view of a Spoonbill, Platalea 

 leucorodia, at Cley, on July 19th, and as neither of us ever heard 

 of its capture it is to be hoped that it escaped destruction. One 

 evening, about the first week of July, Mr. W. B. Monement saw 

 a curious bird sitting on the roof of a building used as a studio 

 in the village of Weybourne, three-quarters of a mile from the 

 sea ; it proved on being shot to be an immature Night Heron. 

 On June 30th a pair were released by Lord Lilford at Lilford Hall, 

 and, as the distance is not much over sixty miles, it is probable 

 that this was one of them. 



A Pink-footed Goose, which had evidently been shot in the 

 wing, was picked up on the shore at Overstrand on December 20th, 

 and taken to my father. Though very thin and wasted, it soon 

 got better on his pond. Three or four others were killed in the 

 county between that date and Christinas. 



Mr. Cordeaux wrote that he received from Cromer Lighthouse 

 the wing of a Tufted Duck, which had struck against it on 

 November 18th; some were offered in Norwich Market during 

 the same month. Two Shovellers were shot at Hempstead in 

 December, and one or two others seen. Colonel Feilden found 

 a young Glaucous Gull and a Guillemot dead on the shore at 

 Wells on October 19th. Eight Great Crested Grebes and two 

 Red-necked ones were hanging up in Leadenhall Market on 

 November 21st, and were said to have come from Norfolk. 



