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no longer breed in Yorkshire, and may perhaps come to us from 

 Norway. 



14th. — A young male Iceland Gull on Breydon, so tame that 

 Mr. Patterson crept to within ten paces ; and of course next day 

 it found its way to Mr. Lowne's shop. Length, 21*5 ; culmen, 

 1*3 ; tarsus, 1*8. I have not seen it, but these measurements 

 are sufficient to establish its identity ; and it is the fifth for our 

 county, the Glaucous Gull being much commoner. 



18th. — One of the chestnut-coloured Partridges killed at 

 Bylaugh, near Dereham, by Col. Custance. These birds are quite 

 different in colour from the melanistic race which was met with 

 at Campsea Ash in 1891 and 1892, with which they cannot be 

 confounded. They are simply an erythrism, an abnormal 

 replacement of the natural colour by red, as has occasionally 

 happened in the Bullfinch, House- Sparrow, Green Woodpecker, 

 Rose-coloured Pastor, &c. This month a variety of the Hooded 

 Crow speckled with white was taken near Thetford. 



19th. — Black-throated Diver shot at the mouth of the river 

 Bure by Mr. E. C. Saunders, who describes it as largely spotted 

 on the wings, and becoming barred with white on its back. 



26th. — A hundred Tufted Ducks and several small lots of 

 Gadwall and Wigeon seen on the Ouse near Thetford (T. South- 

 well). Many Wild Ducks already paired. 



31st. — Thousands of Lapwings at Hickling (S. Harmer). 



February. 



1st. — A flock of about fifty Siskins by our river searching the 

 alders in their usual engaging way. 



2nd. — Mr. Caton Haigh met with seven Shore-Larks at Cley, 

 soon after with a flock of about thirty, and farther along the coast 

 saw other small parties and single birds ; also twenty Chaffinches 

 on the shingle, which he presumed had just come over, though 

 we do not expect them after Christmas. 



9th. — Coots and Redshanks paired (Bird). 



11th. — The weather is now extraordinarily mild for the time 

 of year, and the large flights of Wood-Pigeons which were in all 

 our woods in January have gone, probably northwards. Lambs 

 are becoming general, and the young wheat, which is two inches 

 above the ground, is about safe from the depredations of Rooks, 



