THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 705.— March, 1900. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK 

 FOR 1899. 



By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 



(Assisted by several other Naturalists.) 



Plate II. 



The rarities for the year have not been many, and one cannot 

 but be impressed with the growing scarcity of the Hobby, Kestrel, 

 Magpie, Quail, Woodcock, Ruff, Spotted Crake, Bittern, Teal, 

 Garganey, and Wild Duck. 1899 seems to have passed without the 

 record of a single Waxwing, Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Crake, 

 Eider Duck, Glaucous Gull (last visitation 1895), Great Northern 

 Diver, or Fulmar Petrel, and with very few raptorial visitants. 

 The Rev. M. C. Bird tells me of one male Hen-Harrier seen in 

 November among the Broads, and he saw or heard of an Osprey in 

 May ; other correspondents record two of these splendid Eagle- 

 fishers in October. Hardly any Buzzards came over, and since 

 the Buzzard years of 1881 and 1896 they have been conspicuous 

 by their absence ; it is also a good many years since a Goshawk 

 has appeared. 



On Jan. 13th, after a gale in the night, I picked up a Mistle- 

 Thrush which had been dashed against the keep of Norwich 

 Castle, and a Hawfinch at Kirby Bedon met its death in a some- 

 what similar way. Some young Grey-headed Wagtails passed 

 about Sept. 1st ; Crossbills have been reported here and there, 



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