126 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



19th. — Little Gull at Breydon (B. Dye), the only one reported 

 this year. 



27th. — A chestnut variety of the Partridge shot at Bylaugh, 

 and since presented to the Museum by Mr. D'Arcy ; about the 

 same time, I was told of three at Elmham, which apparently were 

 not preserved. This is quite as curious and persistent a variety 

 as the Sabine's Snipe, and, not constituting a melanism, is even 

 more remarkable, an excess of red colour being more abnormal 

 than an excess of black. 



November. 



Exceedingly mild weather all this month. 



1st. — A female Scaup, in a very rufous state as regards breast, 

 neck, and head, received from Mr. Patterson, had probably 

 acquired that ferruginous colour from feeding in water where 

 there was oxide of iron. It had been shot when making its last 

 meal, for several Cyclas cornea (identified by Mr. Reeve) were in 

 its gullet. On showing it to Mr. Caton Haigh, he said that he 

 had seen one as rufous (c/. * Birds of Norfolk,' iii. pp. 78, 190). 



2nd. — Received a Great Grey Shrike which had pounced on 

 a " call-bird" at Downham ; this proved an amusing pet while it 

 lived, and further presented an unusual continuation of the black 

 lores in a line across the forehead, I may here mention that in 

 the Museum there is one killed at Ranworth which is quite as 

 dark on the head and back as Lanius algeriensis ; but this is a 

 genus of varieties. Another Grey Shrike was taken in Yarmouth 

 Gardens (E. Saunders), but we have not had a real Shrike year 

 since 1880. 



4th. — Lapland Bunting at Yarmouth (B. Dye), the only one 

 reported this year. 



9th. — A Water-Ouzel with a chest-band of brown chestnut, 

 shot at Hillington by Sir W. Ffolkes ; the Scotch type is ex- 

 tremely rare in Norfolk, and, if it came from Scotland, is a proof 

 that some migrants do not cross the sea. 



10th. — Greater Shearwater at Lowestoft (T. Southwell). 



13th. — A chestnut Partridge shot at Cawston (G. Herd), and 

 on the 24th another near Dereham, making six in Norfolk this 

 season, one last year, and three the year before. This is the 

 erythrism — for it can hardly be called a race — which has been 

 known as Perdix montana since 1760, and it is not unlikely that 



