Recently published Ornithological Works. 641 



in Xorfolk has now been issued for a good many years_, 

 and always contains raany observations and reflections of 

 interest. The frontispiece is a reproduction of a clever 

 photograph of a Sparrow-Hawk which has just received the 

 contents of the keeper's gun, and is in the act of falling 

 through the air ; and it is still a matter for regret that so 

 many of our rarer and more interesting birds are sacrificed 

 to the keeper's ignorance as to which birds really do harm 

 to his game and which do not. 



The spring migration was again lamentably deficient in 

 the smaller Warblers — Willow-Warblers, Whitethroats, 

 Nightingales, and Blackcaps, — and it is suggested that in- 

 creasing numbers of these fall victims to the " roccoli " and 

 other methods of destruction so common in Italy. The 

 Spoonbills, however, still come to Breydoa Broad in small 

 numbers, and were seen on twenty-six days out of one 

 hundred and six between May and August by the watcher 

 Mr. G. Jary. 



The autumn migration commences as early as August on 

 the Norfolk coast, and can be roughly divided into two 

 brigades of birds, the first consisting of Wheatears, Bed- 

 starts, Warblers, Flycatchers, and Sparrow-Hawks, reaching 

 its maximum in September; while in October and November 

 come hosts of Grey Crows, Books, Jackdaws, Skylarks, and 

 Thrushes. 



Among the rarities recorded during the year were : — 

 Ortolan Buntings, Yellow-breasted Buntings, Roseate Terns, 

 a Glossy Ibis, and an inrush of Waxwings in November and 

 December. 



At Blakeney Point, where there is a well-protectetj 

 '^ turnery,^' the results of the breeding season were rather 

 unsatisfactory, as there was a great mortality among the 

 young Lesser Terns and more than three-fourths of them 

 perished, probably owing to a deficiency in the supply of 

 Whitebait, which appears to form the normal food of the 

 nestlings. 



