THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 904.— October 16th, 1916. 



SOME MISCELLANEOUS NOTES EEOM GEEAT 

 YARMOUTH (1915-16). 



By Arthur H. Patterso n. 



My Note-books covering the past twelve months preEc.it a 

 leaner series of entries than has been the case for many j'^ears 

 past. Breydon, and the marshlands surrounding here, offered 

 neither the normal variety of even familiar species, nor any, save 

 in a few instances, remarkable by their numbers. Something, 

 I suspect, must be placed to the universal unrest and disturbance 

 over broader areas than my own ; besides, the military restric- 

 tions have closed to such as myself large tracts of old-time 

 rambling haunts. As it happened, when wandering on the 

 Denes during the Easter East Coast bombardment, I was within 

 an ace of being arrested as " a suspicious person " by a stolid 

 old sergeant of artillery, who required much information to even 

 half satisfy himself ; and on another occasion, when out ditch- 

 hunting with a member of the Microscopical Society, our basket 

 of pickle-bottles and sundry was overhauled by a much-amused 

 sergeant and sentry. To an occasional sentry command, "You 

 musn't go that way, guv'nor ! " one has become quite resigned : 

 my binoculars have become such a source of interest to vigilant 

 guards that I find it best now to make the least possible display 

 of them. 



Only a few items on matters ornithological presented them- 

 selves as more than common-place : they are the " off and on " 

 Zool. 4th ser., vol. XX., October, 1916. ff 



