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form a very favourite feeding-ground; forty were seen on the 

 16th June, and till the present time a considerable number 

 still frequent this favourite locality; others have been seen at 

 Warham. Perhaps the strongest party of all is that which took 

 up its quarters at Morston, about midway between Stiff key and 

 Cley, the great attraction being doubtless the extent of salt- 

 marsh bordered by sand-hills, between which and the large open 

 fields on the higher ground parallel with the coast they spend their 

 time. Here a large flock on Mr. Wood's farm has remained in the 

 same locality all the summer, and the bulk of them are still there. 

 In the month of July 180 birds are said to have been counted in 

 a field at Morston by Mr. A. Bishop, and in the third week in 

 October 160 were seen about the same place. On the 12th 

 September Mr. Wood was kind enough to afford Dr. and Mr. F. D. 

 Power, Mr. R. J. Howard of Blackburn, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 and myself the opportunity of seeing at least seventy-five of these 

 birds on his farm. I have many other records from this neigh- 

 bourhood, but probably they may all be referred to this flock or 

 sections of the same. On the 13th June thirteen were seen at 

 Hempstead, near Holt, and on the 22nd of the same month 

 seventeen at the same place. On August 11th two were seen at 

 sea off Cromer. In June twenty-five were seen at Soutbrepps by 

 Mr. Ling. On the 27th May I saw a small flock of about seven 

 at Mundesley, and on the 29th of the same month Messrs. C. H. 

 and H. G. Master saw a flock, estimated at 200, a few miles 

 farther on the coast, at Bacton ; on the following day the same 

 gentlemen saw from eighty to a hundred of these birds (probably 

 part of the same flock) " come from off the land at Bacton, and 

 go out to sea, flying almost due east." At Horsey, where they 

 seem to have made themselves very much at home, four were 

 killed out of a flock of twenty on the 1st June, and others at 

 Waxham. At Somerton and Winterton a considerable number 

 were seen ; at the former place, on June 1st thirty-one flew over 

 Mr. William Parry, offering a good shot, but although he bad a 

 gun in his hand he refrained from killing any, and on the 27th 

 October, after a long absence, anotber flock of sixteen was seen 

 in the same place ; at Winterton Mr. E. R. Boult exercised equal 

 forbearance when, on the 13th May (the earliest record I have of 

 their appearance in Norfolk), fifteen of these birds flew within 

 range on their way to the sand-hills or the beach. The birds 



