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shot on our coast by Mr. E. C. Arnold (Zool., 1899, p. 475), is 

 exactly similar in size and tint to one shot in 1896 by Mr. Robert 

 Gurney, and presented to the museum. Mr. Cordeaux, in his 

 List, is only able to give one Lincolnshire occurrence of this 

 species, and two of the Great Reed Warbler, which Mr. Howard 

 Saunders thinks may be also added to the Norfolk list (Manual 

 B.B., 1st ed.). 



6th.— W.S.W. A Manx Shearwater picked up at St. Faith's, 

 a species which always turns up at this time of the year, either 

 off the coast or inland. 



7th. — E. A young female Wheatear, shot by Mr. F. E. Gunn 

 on the coast, has the central rectrices black to the base, and the 

 other rectrices also much smudged with black, and some speckling 

 of the same on the belly ; at first thought to be an Isabelline 

 Wheatear, but it seems rather to be a slightly melanistic 

 Saxicola cenanthe. 



8th. — W. A beautiful young male Buff-breasted Sandpiper 

 (Tryngites rufescens), shot on shingle at Cley by Mr. Arnold. Its 

 nicely mottled upper parts are very different from the dark back 

 of our old Museum specimen, said to have been shot in July, a 

 few miles east of where the present one was procured. The 

 species has a more rounded head than most of its kin, which 

 feature was well shown in Mr. Arnold's freshly mounted example, 

 and also the distinctive freckles under the wing. Mr. Cordeaux 

 does not include this American species in his List, but it has 

 been shot five times in Norfolk. Whether the present example 

 came with a west, or an east wind, seems doubtful. 



9th. — N.W. Two Velvet Scoters seen, several Richardson's 

 Skuas ; also Great Crested Grebes, young Ruffs, two Dusky 

 Redshanks, and a Red-necked Phalarope, — all on the coast 

 (Pashley). 



14th.— N.E. Great Snipe at Southwold (< The Field'). Be- 

 tween this date and the 27th Great Snipes were shot at Yar- 

 mouth (Dye), Haddiscoe, Pensthorpe (Davey), and two atElling- 

 ham (Toyser) ; while later on at Stuston (Southwell), and two at 

 Morston (Pashley). It is many years since Norfolk has had any 

 number of Solitary Snipe, though there were several in Septem- 

 ber, 1880. 



18th.— N.W. Hoopoe at Skeyton (Cole). 



21st.— N.W. Four Cormorants at Hunstanton (Tuck). 



