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bird which from his description must have been an Alpine 

 Accentor, near Yarmouth. 



25th. Mr. Patterson found floating upon the river Bure a 

 three-bushel sack which proved to be crammed full of dead 

 Black-headed Gulls, in fact nearly 100 of them, and most of them 

 minus their wings. Many a visitor to our " Broads " is deprived 

 of pleasure by such thoughtless and selfish destruction as this. 



27th. The first Lapland Bunting was seen at Yarmouth 

 (G. Smith), four days later than the first seen last year. 



28th. A Fulmar Petrel at Cley (Pashley). 



October. 

 1st. A Kentish Plover at Yarmouth (Patterson), and a Yellow- 

 browed Warbler at Cley. The latter was shot by a labouring 

 man who only wished to empty his gun, and little thought he was 

 firing at the first Norfolk example of Phylloscopus super ciliosus. 

 It has the stripe on the crown very faint, and is probably a young 

 bird. Three were shot on the 8th, 13th, and 15th, in South 

 Yorkshire, probably a part of the same migratory flock, which 

 indeed reached to Italy, where, as I learn from the Bev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, one was killed between Nice and Genoa about the 

 third week in October. The head stripe is scarcely perceptible 

 in one of the Beverley trio, which, through the intervention 

 of Mr. F. Boyes, I obtained from Mr. George Swailes. Eleven 

 examples of the Yellow-browed Warbler have now been met with 

 in the British Isles, two of which have not been recorded, though 

 obtained twenty-seven years ago. These were shot by Mr. J. H. 

 Jenkinson and Mr. Pechell on the Scilly Islands, October, 1867, 

 the same month which produced one at Cheltenham, and were 

 thought to be only young Firecrests (cf * Birds of Cornwall,' 

 p. 249). One of Mr. Swaile's birds was exhibited by Mr. 

 Harting to the British Ornithologists' Club, and he has com- 

 mented on this, and on its recent occurrence in Norfolk (Zool. 

 1894, p. 459). With the Yellow-browed Warbler the Norfolk 

 register is brought up to 298, to which Dr. Sharpe now tells us we 

 may add Holboll's Eedpoll (' British Birds,' i. p. 47). Three 

 days afterwards another bird, nearly as rare, namely, a young 

 Red-breasted Flycatcher, Muscicapa parva, was shot at Cley by 

 Mr. G. E. Power. Perhaps the next novelty to be found at this 

 favoured seaside spot will be the Crested Titmouse. No Blue* 



