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vinous breast and grey head, it being rather too early for the 

 assumption of much colour; indeed, one of them is scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from a common Rock Pipit. The last occurred in 

 Norfolk two years ago. 



March. 



4th. — Four Pintail on Breydon Broad (S. Chambers). 

 18th.— One hundred and fifty Wigeon on Breydon (S. Cham- 

 bers). 



24th.— Two Wheatears at Beachamwell (R. C. Nightingale) ; 

 the first seen. 



April. 

 2nd. — Drake Garganey at Hickling. 



18th. — A poached Shoveller and a Red-necked Grebe in 

 Yarmouth market (Patterson). 



23rd. — Shoveller Duck already sitting (M. Bird). 

 27th. — Several Whimbrel flying over Yarmouth at night 

 during rain (Patterson). 



May. 

 14th. — Puffin at Snettisham, and a pair of Dotterel at Docking 

 (R. Clarke). 



16th. — Osprey at Hoveton (Dr. Wheeler), and the same a few 

 days afterwards at Filby. 



June. 

 2nd. — Spoonbill on Breydon Broad (B. Dye). 

 6th. Do. do. (Patterson). 



7th. Do. do. (Chambers). 



8th. Do. do. (Chambers). 



14th.— Hawfinch's nest and four young ones at Toft-Trees 

 (R. Drewell) ; one exasperated owner of green peas shot fifteen 

 of these thieves in his garden this summer. 



17th. — Four Garganey Teal on Breydon about this date 

 (Chambers). 



19th. — Five Spoonbills seen on Breydon, and two of them 

 shot in spite of the efforts to protect them. (Several corre- 

 spondents.) 



20th. — A pair of Kentish Plovers at Yarmouth, identified but 

 spared (E. Saunders). 



22nd. — Six Grey Crows on Yarmouth marshes (H. Bond). 

 24th. — At 8 a.m., Chambers, being on the Broad, saw a 

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