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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 

 By J. H. Gueney, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



During the latter half of J 890 the following notes were made 

 by me in Norfolk, and may perhaps be of interest to readers of 

 4 The Zoologist.' 



Col. Feilden reports that, on July 31st, seven pairs of Sheld 

 Ducks were hatched out near Wells. 



On August 25th Mr. H. K. Leach heard and saw four Sand 

 Grouse at Morston, and the same afternoon four were seen at 

 Wells, as he informed Mr. Southwell, who has no doubt that 

 they were correctly identified. A Pectoral Sandpiper, Tringa 

 maculata, Vieillot, was shot at Yarmouth on September 10th, 

 respecting which, and two others subsequently, Mr. Southwell has 

 sent the following note :— " On the 10th Sept. Mr. B. Dye, of 

 Yarmouth, sent me, for determination of species, a Pectoral 

 Sandpiper which had been killed on Breydon the same morning. 

 It proved, on dissection, to be a male, the striated markings on 

 the throat and chest and the wing-coverts broadly margined with 

 chestnut seeming to indicate immaturity. On the 13th of the 

 same month Mr. Lowne, of Yarmouth, was kind enough to inform 

 me that he had received two other specimens of this bird, which 

 were seen together, on the 12th, on a marsh between the North 

 River and Breydon; one was killed and the other wounded, and 

 found the next day near the same spot still alive. I examined 

 these at Mr. Lowne's shop a few days after, and found them in 

 the same state of plumage as Mr. Dye's specimen, and was 

 informed that they had proved by dissection to be a male and 

 female. The first mentioned example is in Mr. Dye's collection, 

 and the two others were purchased by Mr. Bellin, for whom they 

 were set up by Mr. Lowne." 



On Sept. 13th a female Ked-breasted Flycatcher, Muscicapa 

 parva, Beehstein, was shot at Cley by Mr. Ogilvie, the eighth on 

 record, Cornwall being accredited witli four, Ireland one, Berwick- 

 shire one, and Yorkshire one, which last was shot at Scarborough, 

 Oct. 23rd, 18H9, the same day of the same month as the Irish 

 example in 1887 — history often repeats itself in matters ornitho- 

 logical. Although this Flycatcher was immature, judged by its 



