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stuffed thirty ; while Mr. Dack, of Holt, mounted thirty-five. 

 Mr. Clarke, of Snettisham, set up forty-one ; and the three 

 Norwich bird-stuffers eighty-four, sent in from various parts of 

 the county. Besides these, other naturalists and amateurs stuffed 

 eighty-three; two were sent to the Zoological Gardens by Colonel 

 Feilden and Mr. Lestrange ; and some others, picked up at or 

 near Holkam, were taken to the Earl of Leicester, and not pre- 

 served. I think I cannot be over the mark in estimating birds 

 thrown away and skeletons found on the beach at twenty, which 

 gives a total of 295. Very few of these Little Auks were in full 

 winter plumage, and one from Cromer had the sides and lower 

 part of the neck nearly black. From Yorkshire, Mr. W. J. Clarke, 

 of Scarborough, wrote that he had conclusively proved a large 

 preponderance of females by dissection ; and all the earlier ones 

 sent to Mr. Gunn, and dissected in his absence by his son, were 

 females except one, and the later comers nearly all males. The 

 same separation of the sexes was noticed by Mr. Roberts and by 

 Mr. Robert Clarke. 



February. 



Prevailing wind N.E. 



2nd. Five or six Glaucous Gulls were seen at Cley by Mr. T. 

 Gunn, two of which were shot, with a Fulmar. About this time, 

 Mr. Patterson reported Cuttlefish bones washed up along the 

 beach for miles, and that one or two enterprising men gathered 

 these chalky interiors in sacks to sell to our Canary-breeders, 

 who hereabouts are rather a numerous fraternity. (See Zool. 

 1889, p. 15.) 



9th. A Shag, Phalacrocorax cristatus, was shot at Snettisham 

 (R. Clarke). 



11th. A Yarmouth bird-catcher named Cubitt, taking advan- 

 tage of the protracted frost, caught fifty-three starving Gulls in a 

 clap-net, and brought them all alive to Mr. Patterson, viz. forty- 

 one Black-headed Gulls, eleven Common Gulls, and one Lesser 

 Black-backed Gull. 



16th. A cat or a Tawny Owl killed and partly eat one of my 

 pinioned Garganeys, and frightened one of the above-mentioned 

 Gulls into the water, where it froze to death, and was found in 

 the morning a veritable feathered iceberg ! 



20th. Sclavonian Grebe and several Whooper Swans were 

 seen or shot at Cley (H. N. Pashley). 



