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throats were seen there, and, so far as I know, none were 

 announced on any part of the east coast of England during 1894. 



9th. A young male White-eyed Duck, Fuligula nyroca, was 

 shot at Yarmouth (G. Smith). 



13th. Keceived a pair of Gadwalls from a mere in West 

 Norfolk, and later on another pair, but I find these Ducks shy, 

 and much more difficult to keep alive than Pintails. In Hunt's 

 time (1815), the Gadwall was called "a Rodge," probably signi- 

 fying an eater of aquatic roots (cf. Harting, Zool. 1882, p. 296). 



15th. A Great Snipe was shot at Reedham (G. Smith), and a 

 Little Gull at Cley (Pashley) ; two other Little Gulls were seen 

 at Cley, and a Shag killed (G. E. Power). 



16th. Lapland Bunting at Cley (Power). Others seen after- 

 wards by Mr. W. H. Dobie. 



17th. Little Auk at Cley (Power). 



19th. Fulmar Petrel washed up at Yarmouth (Patterson), and 

 another about the same time at Cley (W. H. Dobie). 



On the 24th I noticed the barometer very low, and the 25th 

 was as cold a day as I ever experienced, when standing shivering 

 outside a covert ; in spite of which, Mr. Pashley informs me, a 

 dull-plumaged female Roller was shot, either on this day or a 

 few days before, at Barton ; but the Roller, though tropical in 

 appearance, has a high northern range. A walk with my gun 

 convinced me that birds were on the move. Mr. Patterson, from 

 his station at Yarmouth, observed Rooks, Jackdaws, and Starlings 

 flying south in continuous flocks; and a Sea Eagle was seen by 

 several people at Northrepps, mobbed by about forty Rooks, 

 which gradually drove it out to sea. Two large flocks of Long- 

 tailed Ducks were viewed at sea by Mr. Dobie swimming west- 

 wards ; and a Black-bellied Dipper, Cinclus melanog aster, a bird 

 which the late Mr. Stevenson associated with severe weather, 

 was shot at the back of Aylsham watermill, as I learn from 

 Mr. Southwell, who adds that its gizzard contained elytra of 

 the Whirleygig Beetle (Gyrinus). It was afterwards presented 

 to the museum, when I had an opportunity of noting that the 

 whole of the white breast was suffused with specks of brown, 

 doubtless the last indication of immaturity. There was not a 

 tint of chestnut on the under parts* This interesting species is 

 now reckoned almost an annual visitant to Norfolk, whereas the 

 typical British C. aquaticus has occurred but twice in the county* 



