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visit to the Antarctic Seas, but the Norwegians were more per- 

 sistent, prosecuting the sealing there with vigour, laying up their 

 vessels at the Falkland Islands, and employing a carrier to bring 

 home their produce. This vessel, on her return after last season's 

 fishing, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, the salvage realising 

 very little ; and the Norwegian ships, I am informed, do not 

 intend to continue the enterprise in that direction, — fortunately 

 for the southern Seals, which would otherwise have been quickly 

 exterminated. 



I have, as on former occasions, to express my indebtedness to 

 Mr. David Bruce and Mr. R. Kinnes, of Dundee ; to Capt. David 

 Gray, of Peterhead ; and Mr. Michael Thorburn, of St. John's, 

 Newfoundland, for their kindness in supplying me with informa- 

 tion. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 

 By J. H. Gurney, F.L.S. 



The following notes for 1894, as will be seen, have been 

 chiefly collected from the observations of others, and I have been 

 careful in every case to specify the source of the information. 

 We have so many good naturalists in Norfolk, that there is 

 seldom any need to personally verify the reported occurrence of 



rare species. 



January. 



8th. A Black Guillemot and a female Eider at Hunstanton 

 (J. G. Tuck, Zool. p. 04). 



13th. About this date a Scaup was shot on the river at 

 Dunston, four miles south of Norwich. This is some way 

 inland, but at the beginning of the month a good many of these 

 birds appeared at Blakeney and other places on the coast, and I 

 received one alive, but it soon died. Others were shot, being 

 tamed by the very severe weather. The 4th was the coldest day 

 experienced in Norfolk for twenty-seven years, but on the 10th 

 the frost broke up. 



February. 



1st. A female Great Bustard was shot at Costessey, near 

 Norwich, by a man named Paul, of which a full account has been 

 given by Mr. T. E. Gunn (Trans. Norfolk Nat. Soc. v. p. 656). Its 

 gizzard contained an angular flake of flint (which must have been 



