OliNITHOLOGJCAL URPORT FOR NORFOLK. 2G5 



^lirection, viz. west, which would take them straight inland if 

 persevered in. Neither in 1914 nor in 1'J15 did any of these 

 Swans, as far as we know, alight on Norfolk Broads. 



'27th. — Twenty-three Woodcocks l)agged in the large wood 

 sit Felbrigge, after a north-easterly g:ile which reached point 5 

 lit Yarmouth and Spurn Head yesterday evening, with snow, as 

 I learn from ]\Ir. Kerr. 



December. 



9th. — Garganey Teal, t immature male, shot at Martham 

 <E. C. Saunders). In the 'Zoologist' for 1900 it is remarked 

 (p. 103) that the Garganey is never seen in winter, but the 

 above occurrence proves that there are occasional exceptions to 

 this rule. 



17th. — A Little Auk at Downham Market (R. S. Smith). 

 A few black feathers among the scapulars of a Grey Crowt 

 displayed as a scare-crow at Hempstead were very suggestive of 

 hybridism, which is probably less rare among Crows than is 

 generally supposed. At the same place a skein of forty Pink- 

 footed Geese t was seen. 



Varieties. 



January 18th. — A pale variety of the Teal, a female, sent to 

 Mr. E. C. Saunders, from Cantley. 



January 30th. — A fawn-coloured Blackbird f at Mr. Roberts'. 

 Another t at the same time at Keswick, with a patch of white. 

 This bird remained all the winter, but disappeared in March, 

 only to return to the same shrubbery the following December, 

 where it remained for four months. 



August 31st.— A white Martin under the eaves of the Swan 

 Hotel, Horning, and another in a nest at Hill -crest House, 

 Cromer (H. Cole). Also a pale Sand-Martin at Hickling, and a 

 .silver-grey Swallow at Stokesby (Saunders). 



October 18th.— A variety of the Moorhen, t with silver-grey 

 under-parts, the feathers being of a hair-like consistency, and a 

 mantle which might be described when fresh as golden-brown, 

 was shot at Rollesby (Saunders). In a normal Moorhen 

 .the interstices between the barbs of the feathers are filled up 



