134 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 
By J. H. Gurney, Jun., F.Z.S., 
President of the Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
In continuation of my Notes for 1888, which have been 
communicated to the end of May (p. 18), I now forward those 
for the remainder of the year, premising that in the month of 
June no observation was made of sufficient interest to be reported. 
I purposely refrain from any remarks on the visitation of Sand 
Grouse, which last summer attracted so much attention, because 
it seems to me that, so far as Norfolk is concerned, Mr. Southwell’s 
excellent article (Zool. 1888, pp. 442—456) leaves nothing to be 
desired. 
I may correct, en passant, a slight error in my last contribution 
which escaped me wher revising the proof, namely, the Cirl 
Buntings referred to on page 14 were obtained in January, not 
February. 
In July the prevailing direction of the wind was S.W. On 
the 4th of that month the members of the Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society made one of their summer excursions to the seat of Sir 
Reginald Beauchamp, at Langley, and in the course of their 
ramble were shown a Wild Duck which had selected the top of a 
thatched shed for the place of her nest, the colour of her plumage 
so closely resembling the old shed that it was difficult to distinguish 
her. On the 11th two full-grown young Kestrels, able to fly, 
taken at Stokesby, had the tails blue washed with rufous and 
faintly barred with black, which is singular at such an early age. 
Several of the changes of plumage which the Kestrel undergoes 
are described by Mr. Cecil Smith (Zool. 1886, p. 110) and Mr. 
F. C. Aplin (Zool. 1887, p. 112), but the blue tail is usually 
regarded as characteristic of the adult male. The sex of the two 
birds above referred to was not ascertained by dissection, but it 
is assumed that they were both males. 
In August the prevailing wind continued 8.W. On the 2nd 
a Montagu’s Harrier rose out of the sedge at Ranworth. I did 
not fire at it, but two others afterwards rose from the same 
place, and, a shot being fired, one was brought down: they were 
young birds, the one procured not being full grown. The flight 
of Montagu’s Harrier is very deliberate, and more or less a 
