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circular flight (with deviations), but-every few seconds there is a 
stop, and the wings hang motionless in the air with their points 
above the plane of the back. On the 21st an Kared Grebe, still 
in summer plumage, was shot at Salthouse. 
In September the prevailing wind was E. On the 10th Mr. 
George Power, who was so fortunate as to obtain a Barred 
Warbler, Sylvia nisoria, on September 4th, 1886 (cf. Norwich 
Nat. Tr., iv. 37), shot another within half a mile of the same 
spot. Both of them were resting in thick bushes of the shrubby 
saltwort (Chenopodium fruticosum), which is such a characteristic 
plant at Cley and Blakeney, and in each case the bird when shot 
clung parrot-like to the branches; indeed for a Warbler its feet 
are thick and powerful. This second example proved to be a 
male by dissection, and apparently a young bird; its dimensions 
were — length, 7°2 in.; expanse of wing, 10°3 in.; wing from 
carpus, 3°4 in. The colour of the beak was brown; base of the 
lower mandible and mouth flesh-colour; legs light blue. The 
contents of the stomach, microscopically examined by Mr. T. 
Southwell and Mr. J. Edwards, were considered to consist almost 
entirely of the remains of earwigs; also a small carabideous 
beetle, Acocephalus nervosus, and the limbs of a minute crab. A 
Blue-throated Warbler, shot the same day, was found by Messrs. 
Southwell and Edwards to contain a preponderance of the remains 
of Acocephalus nervosus, one Philenus spumarius, and one small 
shell of Littorina rudis. A Whidah bird (Vidua principalis, Linn.) 
was shot at Trimingham, supposed to have escaped from a vessel 
some time this month. 
In October the prevailing wind was S.W. A Stone Curlew, 
to all appearance of a pure white, took up its abode during the 
summer not far from Brandon, and was many times observed. As 
autumn drew on it joined the flock of birds of its species which 
annually assembles in that neighbourhood. ‘There it was shown, 
on October 8th, by Messrs. F. and E. Newcome, to Prof. Newton, 
who informs me that he had a good view of it both on the wing 
and on the ground, where, naturally enough, it was very con- 
spicuous. Before the close of the month, as I learnt from Mr. 
Upcher, it had disappeared. 
In November the prevailing winds were E. and 8.W. About 
the 8th a Nutcracker, Nucifraga caryocatactes, was shot at Haun- 
worth : it was a female, with rather a thin beak measuring along 
