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Cley, and a Scarlet Grosbeak was stated to have been caught 

 alive by birdcatchers at Yarmouth. A young male Ruddy Shel- 

 duck was washed ashore, on the 13th, at Snettisham, near Lynn, 

 and there is every reason to regard it as a valid addition to the list 

 of Norfolk birds, though, by a coincidence, Snettisham is the same 

 parish in which an escaped Ruddy Shelduck, belonging to the 

 late Mr. Coldham, was shot in 1869 (see 'Zoologist,' p. 1909). 

 On the 14th I received a young Shoveller and a young Tufted 

 Duck from Saham Mere ; the former had a pink breast and bluish 

 wings. The following day a young male Ortolan was shot by Mr. 

 Gunn at Cley, where there were very few birds until the 2 1st, when 

 large numbers of Redstarts put in an appearance, and a few Blue- 

 throats, speedily followed by a great flight of Robins, with a 

 Wryneck or two. On the 24th Mr. Pashley had a Grasshopper 

 Warbler brought up from the beach, presumably a young male, 

 as its throat was spotted. 



The autumnal waves of migration, whether Grallatorial or 

 Insessorial, which pass Cley are very interesting. Some par- 

 ticular species always predominates, and that species, it may 

 generally be predicted, will be comparatively rare the following 

 year, though indeed there are not wanting some instances to the 

 contrary. During the present autumn there have been large 

 numbers of Bar-tailed Godwits at Blakeney and Cley ; some of 

 the flocks which passed over were estimated by Mr. Gunn to 

 contain as many as seventy or eighty birds. Mr. Pashley, in 

 sending me fifteen, all apparently immature, and varying much 

 in the purity of the lower part of the back, wrote that he had had 

 so many that he had to throw some away. They will probably 

 not appear in their usual numbers for the next few'autumns. 



On Sept. 22nd a Lapland Bunting was taken at Saxmundham, 

 and the following day one was shot near Yarmouth. On the 24th 

 flocks of Sandwich Terns were seen at Yarmouth and Blakeney, 

 and several, I fear, were shot. The month closed, as I learn 

 from Mr. Southwell, with the appearance, on the 28th, of a young 

 Roller, Coracias garrulus, at Burgh. 



