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30th.—At the end of this month Mr. Catley saw a bevy of

young Quails in a wheatfield at Cley. But very few breed in Norfolk

or Suffolk now, nor is it possible that they can be anything hut rare

when a single ship lands 76,000 at Liverpool, all caught at the

beginning of the pairing season in Egypt (‘ Field,’ March 2nd, 1912).


September.


13th.—Pomatorhine Skua at Cley (C. Borrer), the only one

reported this year; :;: it was following some Sandwich Terns, and was





Injuries.





Benefits.



Neutral.



CD


m



Farmer’s


crops.



Insects, etc.



Weeds.



Insects, etc.



?



1 piece of

oat-liusk



11 Carabid

beetles,


4 Staphylinid

beetles



1 seed of

Rumex

crispus,


1 seed of

(?)



3 Noctuid larva 1 , 9

weevils (2 Otiorhyn-

chus, 6 Sitones)



2 spiders, 1 La-

mellicorn beetle,

63


seeds of elder.



?





1 Carabid

beetle





4 Noctuid larvae, 25

ants, 1 Halticid

beetle, 2 weevils

(1 Sitones, 1 Otio-

rhynchus), 7 small

gastropods (Helix)



About 45 whole

elderberries and

88 seeds.



?





1 Carabid

beetle





1 earwig, 2 weevils

(1 Otiorhynchus), 2

small gastropods (1

Helix, 1 Pupidon ?



About 50 whole

elderberries and

214 seeds.



<?





1 Carabid

beetle,


2 Staphylinid

beetles





1 Noctuid larva, 8

weevils (2 Otiorhyn¬

chus, 6 Sitones), 1

gastropod (Helix)



1 elderberry and

59 seeds



not shot. As usual, there were a good many Richardson’s Skuas on

this part of the coast, whither they are enticed by the Terns.


15th.—Red-necked Phalarope at Yarmouth (F. Chasen).


23rd.—Mr. N. Tracey saw a Grey Phalarope at North Wootton,

where it remained a fortnight, dividing its time between two ponds

at some distance from one another. It was very tame, but was

unfortunately eventually caught in a trap which had not been

intended for it.


30th.—A severe gale from the north-west, which in the evening

attained almost to a hurricane (force 9 at Yarmouth, force 10 at



1911.



