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place. The first measured four feet eight inches, and the second seven feet 

 four inches in length. — T. Southwell (Norwich). 



BIRDS. 



Occurrence of the Broad-billed Sandpiper in Norfolk. — A specimen 

 of the Broad-billed Sandpiper (Tringa platyrhyncha) was killed on Sept. 5th, 

 in a marsh to the north of Brevdou, by a man named Smith (who obtained 

 the two Pectoral Sandpipers already recorded, p. 136), and, after being 

 skinned, was purchased by Mr. Connop, for whose collection it is now being 

 set up by Mr. Cole, of Norwich. I did not see the bird uutil Sept. 10th, 

 at Yarmouth, after it had been skinned ; but, in addition to the appearance 

 of the skin, I had independent evidence as to the fact of the occurrence 

 from two persons who had seen the bird in the flesh. The three previous 

 examples of this species met with in Norfolk were all procured in the 

 spring (see 'Birds of Norfolk,' ii. p. 359) ; it is therefore of interest to note 

 its occurrence in the autumn on its passage south. So far as I am aware, 

 the sex was not noted, but the dimensions of the bird (namely, beak aloug 

 the culmen 34 mm., tarsus 23 mm., and wing from flexure 110 mm.) are 

 quite equal to those of the larger bird in the Norwich Museum, procured 

 in Lapland by Mr. Wolley, and exceed those of the male from the 

 Stevenson collection (also in the Norwich Museum), killed in April, 1868, 

 which measures as follows : beak 29 mm., tarsus 20 mm., and wing 

 110 mm. — T. Southwell (Norwich). 



Manx Shearwater near Malton. — I had a female specimen of the 

 Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum, recently brought to me to be stuffed. 

 It was shot on August 26th at Appleton-le-Street, near Malton, as it was 

 rising out of a ditch. I thought this worth recording, as I have not heard 

 of a bird of this species being seen before so far from the sea, namely, 

 twenty-five miles. A severe gale was blowing from the west when it was 

 shot, so it could not possibly have got there from our eastern coast, unless 

 it had been there previously to the gale. It was a mass of fat, but had 

 nothing in the stomach but a greenish fluid. — John Mokley (King Street, 

 Scarborough). 



Wild Duck removing her Eggs.— A mowing-machine was set to work 

 round the outside of a field of lucerne bordering our marsh, diminishing 

 the circle each time round the field, leaving about two acres in the centre. 

 A Wild Duck was seen by the shepherd to fly from the piece ot lucerne 

 that was left with something in her beak, and, happening to fly near him, 

 she dropped a three parts incubated egg. She was again observed by 

 the shepherd, and also by the sheep-shearer, carrying another egg in her 

 beak, this time over the marsh-wall towards the saltings ; and again she 

 was Keen for the third time carrying an egg in her beak in the same direction. 

 On the inowing-machiue going to work next day, and finishing the field by 



