ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 



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ground, made up a bag of ninety-one Snipe, thirty Plover, and 

 four Duck. News came to hand of many flocks of Ducks passing 

 high overhead in different parts, but especially near the coast, 

 beyond the reach of guns. Fowl of all kinds came to Norwich? 

 and a basket of Mallard which I saw unpacked contained a nice 

 pair of Gadwall f from Lynn, and in another lot two Shovelersf 

 from Ranworth. These Gadwall are the first I remember to 

 have met with in Norwich Market, while a few days afterwards two 

 more were shot near Salthouse, and some Pintails (Eamm). In 

 Lubbock's time Gadwall came to Norwich Market every winter. 

 A few fine Goosanders appeared about the 20th (E. Saunders), 

 but only two Smews. 



Mr. Arthur Patterson, writing from Yarmouth, and giving a 

 description of the hard weather and its effects, says : — " Dec. 

 14th, birds are plentiful ; yesterday crowds on Breydon Broad. 

 Snipe rushed in after the snow; on the 10th they invaded the 

 marshes, and on the 11th began to appear in Yarmouth Market," 

 where the chief salesman, Mr. Durrant, gave Mr. Patterson the 

 following particulars from his week-book of birds bought. This 

 table could be compared with that given by Mr. Stevenson in 

 1 The Zoologist ' for 1880, p. 826, which is equally interesting. 



Snipe 



Jack-Snipe 



Lapwing 



Golden Plover 



Coot 



Moor-hen 



Water-Rail 



Spotted Crake 



Heron 



Goosander 



Mallard 



Wigeon 



Pochard 



Teal 



Golden-Eye .. 

 Tufted Duck .. 



Shoveler 



Woodcock 



Curlew 



Dunlin 



Dabchick 



Dec. 11 



Dec. 12 



Dec. 13 



Dec. 14 



Dec. 15 



47 

 17 

 14 

 10 



40 



12 



6 



1 



13 



120 

 20 



40 



43 



6 * 



60 



12 

 4 

 6 

 9 

 3 



4 

 5 



4 

 5 



14 

 9 

 1 



4 



1 



30 

 14 



7 

 1 



— 



1 



8 



— 



3 



1 



1 



179 



23 



— 



40 



60 











~ 



310 



20 



3 



20 



10 



1 



1 



32 



35 



15 



3 



3 



17 



1 



336 

 6 



(Jack- Snipes 

 (not separated. 



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