ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. Ill 



29th. — Another of the chestnut Partridges, t an adult of a dark 

 Grouse-like colour, killed at Elsing (T. E. Gunn), which is near 

 where the others have all been taken, and where a race has really 

 been perpetuated, this being the fourth year in which they have 

 turned up, and the present the twelfth example. It would be 

 interesting to see what a young one, about half-grown, would be 

 like, as no doubt the dark plumage would show. As so much has 

 been said in these "Notes" about this singular variety, the accom- 

 panying reproduction of a sketch by Mr. Herd may be acceptable 

 (Plate II.), representing one of our best specimens (killed last 

 November), a typical Perdix montana, Briss. ; and very like 

 Brisson's plate, with just the same light head and neck. Even 

 in his time it was known to cross with the Common Partridge, 

 from which the French ornithologists supposed it to be distinct. 



30th. — S. The bushes by the sea full of small birds, in- 

 cluding a Nightingale and some Pied Flycatchers, the wind, 

 which had been westerly, having suddenly veered round to S.E. 

 (Pashley). A good many Sky-Larks were found dead under the 

 telephone-wires at Cley (Pashley), and a Dunlin was shot in a 

 turnip-field at Trimmingham (Buxton) ; but this was before the 

 movement noticed by Mr. Haigh in Lincolnshire. 



October. 



Wind west, ten days ; south, eight days ; north, six days ; 

 east, four days. 



1st. — S. veering to S.S.E. Hundreds of Long-tailed Tits 

 seen in St. George's Park, Yarmouth, by Mr. Patterson ; but the 

 true Acredula caudata was not detected among them, though, 

 according to the late Mr. Churchill Babington, it has been met 

 with in Norfolk. It seems to have been a great Tit year, as Mr. 

 Bligh counted twenty-seven Long-tailed Tits in one flock in 

 August, and I noticed several. Mr. Caton Haigh reports that it 

 is many autumns since he noticed so many Great and Blue Tits 

 in Lincolnshire. 1882 was also a Tit year in Norfolk, and in 

 October, 1880, there were troops of them near Cromer — distin- 

 guishable by the white on the head being restricted to the crown — 

 which had presumably crossed the sea. Great Tits have been 

 taken at Norfolk light-vessels several times, but the Long-tailed 

 Tit only once. About this time four Grey Phalaropes were 



