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plumage, Mr. Gunn, from an examination of its ovary, formed an 

 opinion that it was an adult. 



Mr. R. J. Purdy, on Sept. 29th, saw an Alpine Swift hawking 

 along the edge of Cromer Cliffs with some Martins : he watched 

 it at intervals for more than half- an -hour, sometimes within a 

 few yards of him. According to a Norfolk paper, one was killed 

 a few days afterwards in Essex, but Mr. Christy cannot trace its 

 whereabouts, and on the 24th of the same month another was 

 picked up on Scarborough Spa, Yorkshire. 



On October 10th a Bernicle Goose was shot by Mr. Pollock 

 on the beach at Cley. About the same date Mr. Howlett, of 

 Newmarket, received a Whiskered Tern, Hydrochelidon hybrida, 

 Pallas, from the neighbourhood of Dersingham ; but it was 

 not until February last that it came under the notice of the 

 Bev. J. G. Tuck, who at once saw that it was a rarity, and its 

 identification was independently confirmed by Mr. Harting, to 

 whom Mr. Howlett sent it to be named. 



On November 5th Col. Feilden saw an Eagle at Wells, and a 

 young King Duck was sent, in the flesh, from Hunstanton to 

 Mr. Southwell, who has already given some particulars of it 

 (Zool. 1890, p. 463). A second King Duck, believed to be an adult 

 female, was sent on the 15th to Mr. Southwell from Hunstanton 

 by Dr. Whitty. Mr. S. thinks there must have been a small 

 flock of them, and possibly others may have been killed, for in 

 female plumage it is difficult to distinguish from the Eider, and 

 would be sure to be set down as such by anyone who did not 

 examine the bill. A Dunlin — a very unexpected visitor so far 

 from the sea — was shot on Nov. 28th, by the river at Keswick, 

 Norwich. At the same time there were a number of Snipes, and 

 they remained with us for at least a week. 



On December 2nd Mr. Pashley obtained an adult Glaucous 

 Gull at Cley. A Scaup Duck for some time during December 

 frequented a pond in a garden at Bolwick, and close to a house, 

 fully ten miles from the sea. At the close of the month this 

 species was abundant at Cley and Yarmouth, and one was killed 

 so far inland as Edgefield. In a protracted frost Scaups seem to 

 suffer more than any wildfowl. On the 13th fourteen Wild 

 Swans passed over Col. Feilden at Fulmondeston. 



A Shoveller was seen on Dec. 20th in Yarmouth Market by 

 Mr. Patterson, together with twenty-three Scaups, twenty Tufted 



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