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comes to Norfolk (see Col. Feilden's remarks, Norf. Norw. tr. v. 

 p. 421). 



18th. — A Greater Spotted Cuckoo, Coccystes glandarius, im- 

 mature, with dark crown, rich buff chest, and very little crest, shot 

 between Caister and Yarmouth golf-house, This bird (minus its 

 tail, which was unfortunately scattered to the winds) was bought 

 by Mr. E. C. Saunders, who forwarded the body. It was a male, 

 with single-notched sternum, and with a simple projecting manu- 

 brium, very like our Common Cuckoo. The gizzard and oesophagus, 

 which seemed very dilatable, contained fragments of black insects 

 with yellow lines upon them, identified, after some trouble, by 

 Messrs. R. McLachlan and C. 0. Waterhouse as the larvae of 

 Pygcera bucephala, the Buff-tip Moth. This Cuckoo had probably 

 come over the day before, when the wind was from the north, 

 and most likely from the same place as the Macqueen's Bustard 

 which was shot at Humber-mouth (also on the 18th), and perhaps 

 from the Don or Volga. Or both of them may have come on 

 the 16th, when there was wind amounting to a gale from the 

 north-east, and this latter supposition is the more probable ; while 

 the Courser shot in Jersey on the 19th may have been of the 

 party, in which case it is probably Cursorias bogolubovi, subspecies. 

 There was a rush at Flamborough Head lighthouse on the night 

 of the 16th, continuing to 4 a.m. on the 17th ('Naturalist,' 1897, 

 p. 13). 



19th. — Sclavonian Grebe at Yarmouth (E. Saunders). Num- 

 bers of Robins on the coast (Gunn) ; about this time there were 

 thousands at Spurn Point (J. Cordeaux). 



20th. — Mr. H. Pashley received a Black Redstart. 



22nd. — N.W. Wood Lark and Shore Larks seen near Cley. 

 Six Goldcrests on board 'The Cockle' light-vessel (Johnson). 



23rd. — Two Velvet Scoters seen at sea by Mr. Gunn. 



25th. — Grey Phalarope in a dyke quite in the town of Yar- 

 mouth (E. Saunders). 



27th.— W. Goldcrests, Starlings, and Sky Larks passed 

 'The Cockle' light-vessel, going west; fifty Scoters going east 

 (J. H. Johnson). 



30th.— N.W. in the early morning, afterwards N. to N.E. 



31st.— N.E. Mr. E. Ramm shot a very small bird, as re- 

 corded by Mr. Southwell (Zool. p. 8), which, from the exact 



