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4 8th. — Convolvulus Hawk Moth caught on 'The Cockle' 

 light- vessel (forwarded). Wind S.S.W. Several Tree Pipits 

 among the sand-hills (Gunn), where an adult Bluethroat in 

 change of plumage was killed. A flock of nine Ruffs seen at 

 'The Eye' (Pashley), and two more shot at Lynn (R. Clarke). 

 I think it may be considered that with such waders as Ruffs, 

 Dunlins, Plovers, Knots, and Turnstones the proportion of adults 

 to young is about one to nine in September and October at Cley. 

 The young birds lead the way, while the old ones may be the 

 same which, according to Collett, summer at the most southern 

 point of Norway (Journ. fur Orn., July 1881), from whence they 

 would soon flit across to Cley ; but this is a subject for enquiry, 

 though not an easy one to pursue. 



9th. — S.S.W., rather strong. An Aquatic Warbler, Aero- 

 cephalus aquaticus, Gm., in immature but very good plumage, 

 with the lines on the back more pronounced than the streak of 

 buff on the crown, shot at the foot of Blakeney sand-hills by Mr. 

 Gunn, was a male, and contained the remains of earwigs and a 

 beetle, no doubt foraged in the Chenopodium bushes. It is the 

 fifth for England, and is a good deal like one shot by Mr. 

 Edward Hart, at Christchurch in Hampshire. Mr. Gunn saw a 

 few Sedge Warblers at the same time, with which it had probably 

 come from Denmark, where Saunders says it breeds sparingly. 

 Thirteen Chaffinches, a large Hawk, and a Death's-head Moth 

 passed the ' Dudgeon ' floating light. The caterpillars of the Death's- 

 head had been more plentiful than for many years, and I see in 

 the ' Field' that they were similarly abundant in Yorkshire.* 



11th. — Honey Buzzard shot at Snettisham (R. Clarke). 



14th. — W. A White-headed Honey Buzzard, with chest and 

 under parts of the same colour, and dappled wings, shot at 

 Southrepps. This beautiful albinistic variety has occurred two 

 or three times before in Norfolk, and one of them, just like the 

 present example, is figured in Dresser's ' Birds of Europe.' 

 About this time a sprinkling of Kestrels came in from the sea, 

 going in nearly every case against the wind, some of them taking 

 exactly the same line their predecessors followed in other years. 



* Also elsewhere, and similarly reported from Berks, Brecknock, Cam- 

 bridge, Cheshire, Devon, Essex, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, &c. (Ed.) 



