NETTING SEA-BIRDS ON THE WASH. 281 
The success was not quite so great the next night, which 
was calmer, but about forty Plover, Curlew, etc. were 
taken. 
Mr. Stevenson, who gives his readers some interesting 
particulars (B. of Norf., II., 376)—in part supplied by me— 
enumerates twenty-one species as having been taken in 
these nets, but the number is below the mark. I will select 
a day in proof from Mr. Cresswell’s gamebook, in which 
three additional ones are mentioned. 
Dee, 1st, 1869. Dunlin 40 
Knot 19 
Grebe I 
Guillemot I 
Razorbill I 
Gulls 5 
Golden Plover 1 
I suppose a high tide laid the nets under water, which 
would account for the diving birds. Coots are now and 
then caught in the same way. 
Mr. Stevenson (l. c.) remarks that sixty Dunlins have 
been taken in one night: I think that is very likely. 
Thirty-six Knots have been, and on one occasion sixty 
Oystercatchers, and nothing else; but the best haul was 
seven Grey Geese at one swoop, which rolled themselves 
up in one little bit of net into such a ball, that it had to be 
cut to pieces to get them out. 
With Mr. Cresswell’s permission I will give the total take 
for eleven consecutive years :— 
1859 132 Birds. 
1860 - 292 i 
1861 - 192 5 
1862 - 313 ) 
1863 - 267 ” 
