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places nothing was left but the ribs of the leaf by the thirsty 

 game-birds. The turnips themselves suffered so much that 

 there was not the requisite cover for Partridges, and beech trees 

 had the appearance of being withered. Three Bearded Tits, 

 driven from their usual asylum on the Broads, or wanderers 

 from Holland, were seen on a pond near Holt, where I never 

 remember any before ; and three Egyptian Geese and some 

 Canada Geese were moving about in the vicinity of Cromer, the 

 latter probably from Gunton lake, where the young are seldom 

 pinioned. 



On the 31st House-Martins still had young not flown on the 

 steepest part of Runton cliffs, and Mr. Patterson met with Sand- 

 Martins' nests in a hole in the wall. I cannot say whether the 

 drought had anything to do with the choice of such habitations, 

 or with the fact that a Greater Spotted Woodpecker was hewing 

 holes at Keswick as if it had been May. But much later than 

 this there were Starlings' nests, with young in them, at Hellesdon 

 and Keswick. 



5th. — Shoveller at Hempstead. 



16th. — A Norfolk Plover, with some Lapwings, close to the 

 town of Yarmouth, where eight Spotted Redshanks have lately 

 been shot (E. Saunders). 



20th. — Two Ospreys at Filby Broad, the precision with 

 which they caught fish being particularly noticed by the Rev. 

 C. B. Lucas. 



October. 



W. wind ten days, S. wind seven days, E. wind six days, 

 N. wind four days. 



Migration now set in with some earnest, and Kingfishers and 

 Greater Spotted Woodpeckers were in evidence. One Wood- 

 pecker was among the Wells sand-hills (Col. Feilden), and I met 

 with others alive, and in shops ; but perhaps their migration was 

 more marked higher up the east coast. From the observations 

 of Mr. Boyes in 'The Field,' and Mr. Evans in the 'Scottish 

 Naturalist,' Norfolk has not had so many Greater Spotted Wood- 

 peckers since 1868, and that also was a great Crossbill year. 



Lusciniola schwarzi was shot in Lincolnshire on the 1st, and 

 three Dqfila spinicauda in Suffolk, but the latter must have 



