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observed at the two last-named places, as also fourteen, twelve, 

 and twenty subsequently seen there, probably belonged to the 

 same flock. About the 1st June they made their first appearance 

 a little to the north of Great Yarmouth, and numerous parties of 

 fifteen to twenty seen there during the greater part of the month 

 (and subsequently) probably were more or less identical. 



On the 24th May twenty-five were seen by Mr. Eldridge 

 flying over Moushold Heath, near Norwich ; on the 6th June 

 sixteen were seen at Easton, and on the 25th ten at Hetherset, 

 both also near Norwich. We now pass over a considerable tract 

 of country in a westerly direction, till we reach Sturston, near 

 Merton, where on the 14th September one of Lord Walsingham's 

 keepers saw "upwards of 100 flying over a field" in a S.E. 

 direction, at an elevation of from fifty to sixty yards, and on the 

 next day eight others were observed, by the same person, also 

 flying S.E. On the 18th June a flock of nineteen, which had 

 been observed for several days at Wilton by Messrs. F. and E. 

 Newcome, were shown to Prof, and Sir Edward Newton. These 

 birds soon after disappeared, possibly they joined the flocks at 

 Didlington. In September a small flock re-appeared at Wilton, 

 and were again shown by Messrs. Newcome to Prof. Newton on 

 the 8th October. 



A flock of from 70 to 100 was continually seen at Didlington 

 by one of Mr. Amherst's keepers in June or July. The tract of 

 open country about Thetford, Elvedon (Suffolk), Brandon, and 

 Wangford (Suffolk), is still, I believe, frequented by a considerable 

 number of these birds ; twenty were seen at Shadwell in June, 

 and in the same month "another lot" at Wangford, as well as 

 forty " near Thetford," all of which maybe identical. Others 

 have been met with at Outwell, near Wisbech ; six were killed 

 at Downham Market on 23rd May, and others at East Winch, 

 near Lynn. 



It will thus be seen that a very considerable number of these 

 birds has been pretty generally distributed over the county, more 

 particularly along the coast-line— probably large flocks having 

 settled at, say, Snettisham, Wells, Morston, Bacton, Winterton, 

 Yarmouth, and in the neighbourhoods of Thetford and Castle 

 Acre, from which centres outlying parties have wandered in all 

 directions. Eliminating from my list, as far as possible, all 

 those which appear to have formed sections of those large flocks, 



