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27th. Eedwings and Fieldfares were observed coming in 

 flocks straight over the sea (Dobie). 



November. 

 5th. A Fulmar Petrel at Yarmouth (G. Smith). 

 19th. A Peregrine seen near Wells (Col. Feilden). 

 20th. A Spotted Redshank was shot at Barton. 

 26th. A Black Redstart at Cley (Ramm). 

 28th. A Green Sandpiper, Totanus ochropus, at Surlingham. 

 29th. Two Sclavonian Grebes shot on the Bure (G. Smith). 



December. 



4th. A Sea Eagle was killed at Shottesham (J. A. Cole), 

 possibly the same which had been seen at Northrepps and after- 

 wards at Hemsby. 



11th. A Richard's Pipit was caught at Caistor, as I am 

 informed by Mr. G. Smith, at whose house it was at the time of 

 writing, thriving on mealworms. It, however, soon died, and was 

 presented by Lord Lilford to the Norwich Museum. 



14th. A male Salmon 36 in. long and weighing 13j lbs. was 

 taken in an eel-trap at Keswick mill, where no one ever 

 recollected a fish of this species having been seen before ; indeed, 

 its appearance in any Norfolk rivers is very rare, and this one 

 must have passed through three mills — Trowse, Lakenham, and 

 Keswick — which seems extraordinary. 



On bringing these Norfolk Notes to a conclusion, I should 

 like to make an apology. If I was the person who gave Mr. 

 Howard Saunders the information that as recently as 1840 there 

 were Guillemots on Cromer cliffs (vide Yarrell, Brit. Birds, iv. 

 p. 70), though my name is not mentioned, I can only say that I 

 am sorry I was so incautious. There is no reason for supposing 

 that Guillemots ever bred at Cromer, and assuredly not so lately 

 as 1840. The cliffs, as Mr. Southwell has pointed out, are too 

 friable and sandy, with hard clay in places, but quite devoid of 

 rocky ledges such as Guillemots love to haunt. The excuse for 

 the mistake lies in the misapprehension of the meaning of the 

 name " Foulness," applied in maps to this headland of our coast. 

 In the opinion of Mr. W. Rye, the well-known antiquary, it does 

 not mean "Birds' headland/' as I incorrectly supposed, but a 

 fuul or dangerous place where good ships may come to grief. 



