368 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



"Dick" was very fond of a bath. I had hoped to keep the 

 bird until the following migration season, when I should have 

 released him, but he died on March 25th (1916). 



Mr. G. F. D. Preston informed me, on November 6th, that he 

 had observed flying up and down the north beach two Little 

 Gulls {Lams minutus) on October 31st. 



November 1th. — Saw forty Snow-Buntings. 



Books coming over in weary, straggling flocks all the morning 

 of November 10th ; some made hard work of mounting above 

 the chimney tops. Flying straight from east to west. 



Twelve dingy-coloured Crossbills seen in a fir-wood four 

 miles from the town, on November 11th. 



November 12th. — Odd lots of eleven, three, and two Swans 

 seen on Breydon, the weather at the time being exceedingly 

 still, but the glass standing extremely low. Wind north. They 

 had come no doubt " before a cold blow," or to escape one. 

 Weather had of late been very unsettled. 



Storm-Petrel brought in from sea alive on a Scotch fishing 

 drifter, on November 13th. 



November 16th. — Wild N.N.W. weather. The frost of the 

 18th-15th drove the Lapwings from the uplands to the lower 

 and more saline marshes nearer town, where they are scattered 

 all over the place. Some Snipe about ; and on the mud-flats 

 numerous Grey Plovers. The Gulls are having a bad time of 

 it, herrings being very scarce, whilst not even a broken one is 

 wasted. 



Two Gulls flying across the Bridge from opposite directions 

 on the 24th, at a very quick speed, very nearly collided above 

 my head, which they would have done had not one lowered its 

 left wing, on the instant, and the other also raised its left. 

 Onlookers considered it " a close shave." 



Wild Babbits. — Some little larger than rats, fetching absurd 

 prices in the market, on the 27th November. They ran from 

 one shilling apiece to two shillings, and were rapidly enough 

 cleared out at that price. The country folk lay the scarcity to 

 bad weather during the breeding season, and the inflated prices 

 not to their own cupidity. 



A few Golden Plovers and a flock of Lapwings came in on 

 November 28th from due east ; and Books were passing over at 



