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find, common amongst the fishermen in East Suffolk, from the fact 
that these little wanderers are accustomed to alight on the boats 
when at sea in the herring season, and they are then considered to 
indicate good luck and a heavy catch. 
When I was at Flamborough a large but somewhat lean cod was 
brought in by one of the boats, and on opening and cleaning this 
fifty-nine hooks were found in the stomach. These were white- 
tinned hooks, medium size, about two inches long, and still had 
pieces of whelk-bait adhering. These were not Flamborough hooks, 
for the whipping extended further down the shanks than in those 
in use on the headland. I can only conjecture that some fisherman 
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Occasionally turn up from the stomachs of animals. For instance, 
I have seen a handful of nails—double-tens—taken from an ox, 
-Slaughtered because it was ‘doing badly.’ And I have now on the 
table a fence iron spike, 74 inches long, and weighing 23 oz., which 
was taken from the inside of a Christmas goose in 18g1, reared, 
fed, and dressed on the premises. 
Near Kilnsea, on the 13th, I saw two Cormorants (Phadlacrocorax 
carbo) flying north. A pair are reported as having nested and got o 
their young from a wreck on the coast north of this place, but 
I cannot ascertain if this is the fact. Two Dotterel (Zudromias 
morinellus) were seen in a field near the beacon in the second week 
in May, but up to the end of the month I have not heard of any 
having been observed in their old quarters in Lincolnshire. 
In the middle of May I watched some very beautiful Turnstones 
(Strepsilas interpres), in adult plumage, foraging amongst the tide- 
wrack ; also some Whimbrel. Several Red Godwit (Zimosa lapponica) 
were dito seen early in May, and on the 14th I saw a single 
Grey Crow (Corvus cornix). 
I notice that the Snipe which nest in the meadows near the 
River Idle, in Notts, not unfrequently perch on cattle rails, and 
I recently saw one on the summit of an old thorn which did not fly 
before I had got close to it. The Redshank here also frequently 
alights on gates and rails. 
Have any of the readers of ‘The Naturalist’ remarked the very 
small size this year of the orange-tip butterfly (A*thocharts 
cardamines)? I have seen several so small that I could scarcely 
imagine they could belong to the same species. 
July 1853. 
