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Spoonbill come in from the south, wheel round once, and then 

 pitch. Though unmolested, and having the whole broad almost to 

 itself, with the exception of one Grey Plover and a few Gulls and 

 Herons, it only remained twelve hours, being last seen feeding by 

 itself about 7.30 p.m. About the same time one, possibly the same, 

 was seen at Cley. On the same day two Roseate Terns, both 

 females, which may possibly have had eggs, as they have nested 

 in Norfolk once, and not many years ago, were shot on Blakeney 

 Bar by a lad whose youth is the only excuse for his having 

 broken the law in killing them. These birds had coal-black 

 heads and orange-vermilion legs, but the evanescent pink of the 

 under parts had almost faded when they were sent to Norwich. 



28th. — Grey Crow near Haddiscoe (L. Farman). 



29th. — To-day the Scarlet Grosbeak, believed, if there was 

 no miscarriage of justice (see Zool. 1893, p. 150), to have been 

 clap-netted in South Norfolk, died, after living nearly four years. 

 It was always a very tame bird, using its wings very little, and 

 fond of raising the feathers on the crown of the head into an 

 approach to a crest, as it sat sedately on its perch of wood. 

 Gatke particularly remarks on the tameness of this species. 



July. 



13th. — Little Bittern heard at Saham Toney, where its 

 grunting note is known. 



14th. — A Golden Plover seen on the Bure by Mr. Patterson 

 at this unusual date. 



15th. — Spoonbill seen on Breydon (Patterson). 



August. (Prevailing wind North). 



6th. — Seven Pochards seen at Hickling (M. Bird). 



10th. — A Green Sandpiper at Sprowston (R. Gurney), and 

 the next day one in my garden at Keswick, and afterwards some 

 at Potter Heigham and the mouth of the Glaven. 



12th. — N.W. in the morning. A White- winged Tern shot 

 on Breydon Broad. This bird, which was exhibited at the 

 Naturalists' meeting, and is now in the collection of Mr. B. Dye, 

 is an old male passing from its summer to its winter plumage, 

 the nape and occiput being mottled with black, and the grey 

 feathers of the back blotched with new black ones. The White- 



