334 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



A number of dead sea-birds were washed up during the 

 second week of February, and afterwards. On the 16th Mr. A. 

 Paterson found thirty Kittiwake Gulls and twenty-four Razorbills 

 at Yarmouth, in a three-mile walk along the shore ; and in the 

 north of Norfolk the mortality was noticed by Mr. E. W. Dowell. 

 Colonel Feilden wrote, on March 1st, that the north winds during 

 the three previous days had brought many dead birds on shore at 

 Wells; and Mr. Pashley reported numbers of Guillemots, Razor- 

 bills, and young Puffins, at Cley and Blakenej', scattered along 

 the shore by the tide. 



My gardener assures me that on March 5th Great Tits were 

 eating my Morello and gooseberry buds in the most determined 

 manner. It is said they do not take the sound ones, but I think 

 they do. 



On May 23rd Mr. Southwell received from Yarmouth a very 

 interesting addition to the British list, in the shape of an Asiatic 

 Plover, Mgialitis asiatica (Pall.), recently skinned, which had 

 been shot, by a man named Smith, on the denes a day or two 

 before. [Mr. Southwell has already (p. 311) furnished particulars 

 of this interesting occurrence.] 



On June 23v& a fine old Grey Crow was disporting himself 

 outside the town of Cromer, with a Rook with whom he had 

 formed a temporary alliance. 



June 30. A pair of Goldfinches have made their nest on a 

 large sycamore tree at Northrepps, — unfortunately quite impreg- 

 nable, as it is 60 feet from the ground, and on the outside of the 

 tree : they were frequently to be seen gathering materials on the 

 lawn-tennis ground, and picking moss out of the stable-wall. 

 Goldfinches and Bullfinches have become a good deal commoner 

 in the parts of Norfolk with which I am best acquainted, the last 

 five years, — and very pretty they are. 



