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E.N.E., force 5 ; on the 3rd, E., force 6. Undoubtedly, it was 

 these very high easterly winds which brought them over. In 

 Norfolk the Woodcock has become more of a winter than an 

 autumnal migrant, but one wonders whether these December 

 flights across the North Sea are altogether voluntary ones, or 

 whether these Woodcocks are not sometimes driven west against 

 their will. 



The Great Titmouse has long been a known migrant to 

 Norfolk, a fact which I believe my late father was the first to 

 recognize (c/. Zool. 1848, p. 2071). It has been taken on diffe- 

 rent occasions at our floating lightships, whence I have more 

 than once received it. In the present instance the first Great 

 Tits to arrive, or which came under the notice of the naturalist, 

 were some seen on Lowestoft Denes by Mr. C. B. Ticehurst. On 

 Oct. 1st he saw some, and on the 12th there were others in 

 bushes near the sea, and on the 15th four were picked up at 

 high-tide mark. At Yarmouth, Mr. Ticehurst was informed, 

 about twenty were actually viewed as they came in from the sea, 

 and a birdcatcher took several on Yarmouth North Denes. All 

 examined by Mr. Ticehurst belonged, in his opinion, to the Con- 

 tinental race Parus major major, considered to be distinguishable 

 by its brighter coloration and more slender bill (see Prazak, 

 Orn, Jahrb. v. p. 239). This signal irruption of Titmice was 

 equally marked on the coast of Yorkshire, and apparently in 

 Lincolnshire, where my correspondent, Mr. Caton Haigh, writes 

 of many being seen to the south of Humber-mouth on Oct. 17th, 

 which was two days after I had met with them on the shore at 

 Cley. Mr. Caton Haigh also speaks of a smaller flight on 

 Oct. 24th. 



The Visitation of Crosshills. — All through the spring of 1910 

 Crossbills were continually in evidence, those on the coast being, 

 I presume, roaming parties, which kept giving way to new 

 arrivals from inland. Their wanderings were traced in last 

 year's narrative (Zool. pp. 121, 129) up to March 2nd, 1910, 

 and continued by the writer in the Norwich Naturalists' ' Trans- 

 actions ' (ix. p. 71) up to May 14th — a record of the greatest 

 Crossbill migration ever known. To take up the thread at that 

 point can only be done locally. I should first mention that 

 thirty-two were counted quite early in the morning by the 



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