10 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
a couple of hours. A Redstart in the scrub, and many Wheatears 
about the drier ground. Two Common Sandpipers on the mud 
edge, and another in the creeks. Big flock of Lapwings on the 
wing, and several Grey Plovers seen. Larks and Meadow Pipits 
numerous. A good many Black Crows* in the marsh. 
Sept. 18.—Wind N.E., light. Two or three Redstarts in the 
scrub, and a great many Willow Wrens: of three of the latter 
shot, one was a large light-coloured bird, very yellow; the other 
two were small and colder in colour. Crows gone; fewer 
Wheatears; many Meadow Pipits. A Peregrine Falcon about 
the sand-hills, also a Merlin; the latter we watched for some 
time in pursuit of a Wheatear. A fair show of waders: four or 
five Whimbrel, Curlew, a good many Bar-tailed Godwit, Knot, 
Ringed Plover, one lot of Golden Plover, Grey Plover, two Ruff 
flying over, five Oystercatchers on the sands below Stiffkey 
* freshes,’” numerous Turnstones (as many as five together on the 
pebbly flats towards Stiffkey), three or four Curlew Sandpipers, 
Redshanks, Dunlin, a couple of Herons, and a big drove of 
Lapwings. Some Mallard about the harbour, and two Terns. A 
Stock Dove, was sitting on a squab, a few days old, and an 
addled egg in a hole in the sand-hills. 
Sept. 19.—Wind N.E., moderate, fresher in afternoon ; bright 
and hot. A Ray’s Wagtail with some Pied Wagtails at the top 
of the marsh close to Cley. No Warblers in the scrub; a few 
Wheatears, and a little flock of Linnets. One or two bunches of 
Knot, and some odd birds: these must be the remains of the 
large flocks which arrived early in the season. Whimbrel pretty 
numerous, some Godwit, and a flock of fourteen or fifteen Curlew 
Sandpipers on the soft mud opposite Blakeney. Nine Sander- 
lings, unusually wild, on the sands at the Point. A Cormorant 
at the harbour mouth. A duck which passed our boat, flying up 
the harbour, and was knocked over by my brother, proved to be 
a drake Pintail, still in “‘ eclipse” dress. As this duck, according 
to Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., “is chiefly known at the present day 
as a winter visitant, and rather a scarce one”’ in Norfolk (Trans. 
Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc., vol. iv., p. 423), it may be worth 
mentioning that among some wildfowl received from Cley, on the 

* These possibly may have been young Rooks, The Carrion Crow 
(Corvus corone) is arare bird in Norfolk.—Ep. 
