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Lubbock wrote word that he saw seven of these birds flying over 

 the Gunton lakes on Feb. 7th. 



An adult female Red-throated Diver was killed on Oct. 20th 

 at Westleton, near Saxmundham, in the gullet of which I found 

 three small flounders fresh and entire. The stomach contained 

 fish-bones and small pebbles. 



An immature Common Tern was found (Oct. I7th) entangled 

 in some reeds on Surlingham Broad bj^ two men who were pike- 

 fishing. The bird was still alive when found, but so much 

 exhausted with struggling to release itself that it died soon after- 

 wards. A few years since, I remember, a Kingfisher was 

 entangled in a similar manner in Kendal Dyke, Hickling Broad, 

 but in that instance the prisoner was more fortunate, and flew 

 away on being released. 



On Oct. 1st I saw a large flock of Common Gulls hovering 

 over the new railway station at Thorpe. The weather was cold 

 and stormy, and an easterly wind had probably driven them thus 

 far inland. Two birds of this species were brought to me alive 

 a day or two afterwards in an exhausted condition. One of these 

 is still alive in a friend's aviary, subsisting on fish, flesh, and 

 grain, and on seemingly good terms with a couple of Moorhens. 

 The stomach of a Common Gull which I dissected on Nov. 30th 

 contained fish-bones and scales, the seeds of two species of rush, 

 and the legs of a beetle. 



An adult female Cormorant was shot on April 12th on 

 Hickling Broad while perched on one of the stakes that mark 

 the course of the river channel. This species is now only an 

 occasional visitor to this part of the east coast, although in 

 former times, according to Sir Thomas Browne, it used to breed 

 upon trees at Reedham ; and the Rev. R. Lubbock, in his ' Fauna 

 of Norfolk ' (p. 173), notes that " Cormorants have in some 

 seasons nested in the trees around Fritton decoy in some 

 number ; in other years there has not been one nest." 



