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coast. Put out to sea about a mile and a half in the morning, 
and fell in with a school of porpoises. A short distance from 
land two Golden Plovers came round the boat from seawards, and 
when about half a mile off, parties of four and six Larks and a 
Wheatear passed us, travelling steadily 8.S.W. Several small 
lots of Scoter, and some half-a-dozen Divers (apparently Red- 
throated), singly, flying E., at perhaps a mile from shore. Six 
Mallard and four Teal were also flying towards the land. A 
couple of tame Golden Plovers which my brother fell in with on 
the beach in the afternoon, and some Teal flushed from the 
creeks, were probably those seen coming in in the morning. 
A few Black Crows on Salthouse banks. One Whimbrel seen. 
Strong wind at night, and heavy rain up to 6 o'clock next 
morning. 
Sept. 25.—Wind N.E., strong and cold in morning, dropping 
later. Evidently a small immigration of ducks, thrushes, and 
some small birds last night. Two Song Thrushes and a Black- 
bird in the scrub, which was not beaten until late in the afternoon ; 
also some large Pipits, which rose silently, and proved to be 
A. trivialis. A single old Snow Bunting on the beach, rather an 
early arrival; also some Wheatears and Larks. A good bunch 
of Knots on the mud, and a few odd birds. Many waders in the 
marsh between Morston and Blakeney creeks; Grey Plover 
numerous, two or three Godwits, and a Ruff. The last-named, on 
rising from the mud, settled far out on the sands near the channel, 
where it was put up by a passing boat while I was endeavouring 
to creep up to it, and, though it came round to the call, would 
not come down. Two more Greenshanks were shot on the marsh 
to-day. A bunch of eleven Wigeon, also two and three, about 
the harbour ; two Teal came off the sea in the afternoon. 
Sept. 26.—Bright and hot. Down to the beach before breakfast. 
Many Meadow Pipits in the marsh, and several little parties of 
Larks on the beach, inclined to move eastwards along the 
coast. 
A Honey Buzzard in the first year’s plumage, now in Mr. 
F. C. Aplin’s collection, was shot at Thurgarton, near Cromer, 
on the 13th September last. 

