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  THE 
  ZOOLOGIST. 
  

  

  20th. 
  — 
  S.W., 
  3. 
  About 
  this 
  date, 
  I 
  am 
  informed 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Pinehin, 
  live 
  Spoonbills 
  appeared 
  on 
  Blakeney 
  muds, 
  and 
  were 
  

   seen 
  at 
  intervals 
  in 
  the 
  channel 
  and 
  harbour 
  for 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  

   week. 
  The 
  first 
  time 
  Pinehin 
  saw 
  them 
  they 
  were 
  half-way 
  up 
  

   the 
  Cley 
  channel, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  the 
  nearest 
  houses 
  in 
  the 
  

   village. 
  It 
  is 
  likely 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  same 
  birds 
  which 
  about 
  this 
  

   time 
  frequented 
  Breydon 
  Broad. 
  

  

  21st. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  Bird 
  saw 
  a 
  pair 
  of 
  Common 
  Sandpipers 
  on 
  the 
  

   Broads, 
  and 
  a 
  Marsh-Harrier, 
  and 
  found 
  two 
  clutches 
  of 
  Grass- 
  

   hopper-Warbler's 
  eggs, 
  and 
  the 
  keeper 
  found 
  another 
  Redshank's 
  

   nest 
  with 
  five 
  eggs. 
  The 
  following 
  day 
  a 
  Green 
  Sandpiper 
  and 
  

   two 
  Black 
  Terns 
  were 
  seen. 
  

  

  29th. 
  — 
  A 
  Pioseate 
  Tern 
  seen 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Pinehin, 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  on 
  

   our 
  coast 
  this 
  year, 
  but 
  he 
  was 
  confident 
  of 
  its 
  identity. 
  

  

  31st. 
  — 
  Seventy 
  Terns' 
  nests 
  counted 
  by 
  our 
  watcher. 
  

  

  June. 
  

  

  6th. 
  — 
  E., 
  fine 
  and 
  warm 
  on 
  Breydon 
  ; 
  wind 
  much 
  stronger 
  

   (force 
  4) 
  off 
  Yarmouth. 
  " 
  An 
  Avocet 
  came, 
  but 
  did 
  not 
  stop 
  

   long 
  ; 
  after 
  having 
  a 
  rest 
  for 
  about 
  a 
  couple 
  of 
  hours 
  he 
  flew 
  

   away 
  again 
  to 
  the 
  N.E." 
  (George 
  Jary). 
  The 
  wind 
  the 
  evening 
  

   before 
  was 
  N.N.E. 
  

  

  12th. 
  — 
  First 
  Lesser 
  Tern's 
  eggs 
  hatched 
  (Pinehin). 
  

  

  13th. 
  — 
  Seven 
  or 
  eight 
  Black 
  Terns 
  seen 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  

   King's 
  Lynn 
  Cut 
  by 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  Cresswell. 
  

  

  14th. 
  — 
  First 
  Common 
  Tern's 
  eggs 
  hatched 
  on 
  the 
  beach. 
  

  

  18th. 
  — 
  Visited 
  a 
  large 
  settlement 
  of 
  Common 
  Terns, 
  some 
  

   account 
  of 
  whose 
  nesting 
  operations 
  is 
  given 
  farther 
  on 
  (c/. 
  

   p. 
  216). 
  

  

  20th. 
  — 
  A 
  Marsh-Harrier 
  seen 
  at 
  Hickling 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Kearton. 
  

  

  July. 
  

  

  1st. 
  — 
  A 
  Porphyrio, 
  presumably 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  green-backed 
  kind, 
  

   seen, 
  but 
  fortunately 
  not 
  shot, 
  on 
  Stalham 
  Broad 
  (Bird). 
  

  

  23rd.— 
  S.W., 
  2. 
  Mr. 
  Jary, 
  the 
  Breydon 
  watcher, 
  counted 
  

   eighty-two 
  Curlew 
  and 
  Whimbrel 
  in 
  one 
  flock 
  on 
  the 
  muds, 
  

   indicating 
  a 
  very 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  non-breeders. 
  This 
  was 
  the 
  

   wettest 
  July 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  for 
  a 
  great 
  many 
  years 
  ; 
  my 
  rain- 
  

   gauge 
  registered 
  5*33 
  in., 
  and 
  another 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  parish 
  5*79 
  in. 
  

  

  

  