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19th. Storm Petrel was seen at Blakeney Bar (F. D. Power). 



21st. Three young Richardson's Skuas at Cley (Pashley). 



22nd. A Rough-legged Buzzard at Castle Rising (R. Clarke), 



24th. A Peregrine Falcon at Holkam (Lord Leicester). 



25th. About four hundred Mallard, forty Teal, four Wigeon. 

 forty Coots, and fifty Canada Geese, were counted on the lake at 

 Holkam. A Solitary Snipe at Burgh (E. C. Saunders); and 

 a number of Pied Flycatchers at Cley (F. D. Power). About 

 this date seven hundred and seventy-four Partridges were killed 

 at Feltwell by three guns, one of the biggest scores ever made in 

 one day in this county, but it was a very good season. Tame 

 Pheasants also did very well ; but as an instance of the dangers 

 run by such birds, I may relate that two stray dogs killed forty- 

 two and twenty-two fowls in two nights, supposed at first to be 

 the work of a fox, but the dogs came again, and paid the penalty 

 of the law. 



October. 



Prevailing wind W. 



2nd. A Woodcock was shot at Threxton (J. Tingey). 



4th. A Pomatorhine Skua was shot at Cley (A. Sapsworth). 



5th and 6th. A Spoonbill was seen at Morston by Mr. Saps- 

 worth ; also a Pied Flycatcher, Buffon's Skua, Velvet Scoter, and 

 a large number of Gannets in the same neighbourhood. 



8th. Two Stilts were seen on Wolferton Marsh by Mr. 

 Charles Plowright and T. Petch. 



12th. A Black-winged Stilt, a young female with some black 

 feathers coming on the upper wing-coverts, the only indication of 

 any change, was shot on Castleacre Common (T. M. Hudson, 

 Zool. 1895, p. 434). This species has not turned up in Norfolk, 

 except in one unconfirmed anonymous instance (' St. James' 

 Gazette,' Jan., 1889), since 1875, when, as in the present case, a 

 pair appeared. A young Norfolk Plover, about two-thirds grown, 

 was shot on the east bank at Salthouse (Pashley). 



16th. A Rough-legged Buzzard near Cley (Pashley). 



17 th. Buffon's Skua, an immature male, was shot at Yarmouth 

 (E. C. Saunders) ; and a Guillemot was picked up at Dunton, 

 inland (E. Dowell). 



18th. Enormous migration of Corvidce, Hooded Crows prin- 

 cipally, and many Jackdaws at Cley (Dr. George Power). 



19th. A Norfolk Plover near Cley (Pashley). 



