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in January at Pakefield, near Lowestoft. An adult female 

 Goosander, killed on Jan. 8th, was exceedingly fat, the stomach 

 extended with a large dace measuring 9j in. in length, the head 

 of which lodged in the stomach and was partly digested. An 

 adult male Bewick's Swan was shot by a marshman on Rockland 

 Broad early in January, and sent to me. It weighed 12 lb. 13 oz. ; 

 in total length 47 in. and 21$ in. in the wing from carpal joint to 

 tip of longest primary ; the gizzard contained sand and silt onry. 



Several examples of the Solitary Snipe, Gallinago major, were 

 killed or observed during September. The first I received, on 

 the 20th, was a male shot by Lord Wodehouse at Barton, and 

 was exceedingly fat. A pair of these birds were repeatedly seen 

 and flushed from a particular corner of a marsh at Buckenham 

 for several days in succession, but rose out of gunshot, and so 

 escaped. I also heard of two others being obtained. Several 

 Common Snipe were also killed during this month, and were all 

 doubtless migratory birds. Jack Snipe very plentiful about 

 Yarmouth. 



An old male Great Crested Grebe was picked up dead in a 

 marsh at South Walsham on June 3rd. It was in good condition 

 and feather, and after being skinned I could find no trace of any 

 wound to account for death. Its stomach contained a mass of 

 matter consisting of its own feathers, scales of small fish, and 

 seeds of rush, the whole contents weighing l\ oz. ; the feathers 

 predominated, and were evidently plucked from its breast, which 

 was almost bare in that part. On July 29th an adult female of 

 this species on being opened showed an ovary full of small eggs, 

 and the stomach contained a quantity of feathers, and several 

 large Entozoa, which it had no doubt swallowed with fish. 



Adult males of the Ruff and Greenshank were killed on 

 August 16th near Norwich. A Partridge shot at Caistor, near 

 Norwich, on Dec. 22nd, had the upper mandible curving over the 

 lower, and forming nearly three-fourths of a circle ; the tip of 

 the lower mandible had in this instance been injured by being 

 broken at the point, thus offering no check to the growth of the 

 upper one. 



On Jan. 17th I received an adult female Heron having the 

 eggs in ovary in a forward state of development. On Feb. 25th 

 an adult male killed at Strumpshaw was sent me. Colour of eyes, 

 pupil bluish black, surrounded by a fine circle of yellow, then an 



