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25th. Mr. G. Bazeley, of Northampton, writing under date of 

 yesterday, informed me that a female Waxwing was killed at 

 Brington on 22nd inst, and had been sent to him for preservation. 



26th. One of our gamekeepers brought to me the remains of 

 a Little Auk found this morning near Lilford Wood ; the head 

 and neck of this bird had been eaten by some beast or bird of 

 carnivorous disposition. 



27th. Very severe frost, our flooded meadows were covered 

 with thick ice, and a good many Mallard were sitting thereon. 



29th. Nineteen degrees of frost, the Thrush family suffering 

 very severely. Immense numbers of Redwings reported to me. 



30th. Mr. W. Tomalin informed me that another Little Auk 

 was picked up at Brington on 25th inst., and was sent to Mr. W. 

 Bazeley, of Northampton, for preservation. My son reported 

 two "very big" Gulls seen by him on Tichmarsh Manor, near 

 Molesworth. 



31st. Mr. John Crisp told me of having picked up a starved 

 Kingfisher near Warmington, and that some 500 Mallard and 

 Wigeon were frequenting the river in that neighbourhood. 



February. 



1st. Mr. Frederick Hodgson told me that he recently saw a 

 large flock of Snow Buntings near Aldwincle. 



2nd. A very clean specimen of Little Auk was recently picked 

 up dead near Tichmarsh, and sent in flesh to me by the Rev. F. M. 

 Stopford, to whom it was brought by the finder. Mr. H. Field, 

 of Kettering, wrote informing me that a Little Auk was brought 

 to him yesterday, for preservation, from Geddington, and that his 

 brother had received a Waxwing recently shot near Kettering. 

 Mr. J. Crisp brought me a Little Auk in flesh that was picked up 

 yesterday near Elton. Mr. G. Bazeley sent me a very dull-coloured 

 female Waxwing, stuffed, with the information that he had received 

 it from Burton Latimer on 29th ult. 



3rd. My tame Ravens commenced to build in the site from 

 which a brood of four was hatched out last year (see my notes for 

 April 30th, 1894), but the female parent of said brood died not 

 long after the young were taken, and I am not certain about 

 the sex of her successor, which I received with her, from a nest 

 in Andalusia some years ago. 



5th. I was given to understand that the three Mute Swans 



