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were seen by Col. Feilden on Nov. 18th. This unusual lateness 

 in the stay of the Hirundines was observed on the coast of Kent 

 and in other places. 



A Sandwich Tern was shot at Cley, by Mr. Gunn, on August 

 10th ; and three more were obtained by Mr. Pashley in the course 

 of the subsequent fortnight, one of which was immature ; a fifth 

 was obtained at Yarmouth by Mr. Lowne. On Aug. 21st a 

 Spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia, was shot at Cley ; and on Aug. 

 25th I received a Ruff, Machetes pugnax, from the same place, 

 and on the 27th four young Greenshanks. Mr. Cordeaux wrote 

 that higher up the coast Greenshanks were quite numerous. A 

 very young Red-necked Grebe was shot at Cley on Sept. 1st, and 

 on the 3rd an Eared Grebe was killed at Kessingland : on 

 examination it proved to be an adult bird, retaining a little of its 

 summer plumage. 



On Sept. 5th a Broad-billed Sandpiper, Tringa platyrhyncha, 

 was shot on a meadow adjoining Breydon, as recorded by Mr. 

 Southwell (Zool. 1891, p. 396). Having been fired at first with 

 No. i shot, and afterwards with No. 6, and then carried about for 

 some hours in a coat-pocket, it was unfortunately almost spoilt. 



No bird is more senselessly persecuted than the Barn Owl. 

 On Sept. 6 abirdstuffer in Norwich stated that he had no less 

 than forty of these birds brought to him in the previous seven 

 weeks.* On Sept. 7th a Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum, 

 occurred at Creake. 



A pair of Sandwich Terns, Sterna cantiaca, were seen off 

 Lowestoft, about a mile from the shore, on Sept. 15th, together 

 with a Skua (no doubt Richardson's) and a good many Razorbills. 

 Prof. Newton, in the * Birds of Norfolk,' (iii. p. 267) alludes to 

 Razorbills sometimes submerging themselves gradually when 

 pursued, before the final dive ; but the Razorbills observed at 

 Lowestoft went down without any such preparation, none at least 

 that my eye could detect. Another Manx Shearwater, Puffinus 

 anglorum, was shot at Breydon Water, and the following day two 

 were procured at Cley. All three proved to be males. 



* Such wanton destruction calls for the strongest remonstrance. Perhaps 

 if the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society were to draw up a circular 

 on the subject of the thoughtless persecution of certain well-known British 

 birds, and cause copies to be distributed amongst those who seem to stand 

 in need of instruction, it might in time bo productive of good results. — Ed, 



