112 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



announced in different places (Lowne and Clark), and an Eagle, 

 doubtless a young White-tailed Eagle, was shot at Babingley, 

 near Lynn. This is the seventh Eagle in the last twelve years, 

 the others occurring in November or December. 



2nd. — S.W. Thirty-three Grey Plovers on Mr. Durrant's 

 stall in Yarmouth Market (the dealer alluded to in the preface), 

 and three Greenshanks (Patterson). 



12th. -— S. S.W. One hundred and twenty Grey Plovers offered 

 by different Breydon gunners to Mr. Durrant, the salesman, who 

 says that during the ten days the migration lasted he had about 

 two hundred and seventy altogether (Patterson). The wind had 

 been west or some point of west every day except on the 6th, 8th, 

 and 9th, and in the face of a west wind they came, which was very 

 strong on the 3rd, when perhaps most of them touched shore. A 

 good many came to Cley and Blakenny (Pashley), and Mr. Haigh 

 fell in with them as far north as Lincolnshire. This year has 

 produced a greater number of Grey Plovers than has occurred 

 since the autumn of 1877; but they are at all times rather a 

 common Norfolk bird, and I have always considered them essen- 

 tially a bird of the coast, and at Blakenny much more abundant 

 than the Golden Plover. 



16th. — S.E., strong. Mr. Bird, who lives near the coast, 

 put up three Snipe in a dry turnip-field, and at the same time 

 remarked Rooks, Grey Crows, and Jackdaws streaming overhead ; 

 while flocks of Grey Crows were to be seen passing Fritton Lake, 

 indicating that the movement had an extended front. I saw a 

 Ring-Ouzel, and " very many Ring-Ouzels " turned up at Cley 

 (Pashley). Four days after that, flock after flock of Long-tailed 

 Tits arrived, and I am assured by Mr. Pashley, whose " garden 

 was full of them," that they were actually seen coming off 

 the sea (c/. note on Oct. 1st). 



25th. — N.N.W. Mr. Lowne received an immature female 

 Purple Heron from Blyth, near Lowestoft, where it was shot by 

 Mr. Roberts, as notified in the ' Field,' and may possibly have 

 been the bird which was seen at Easton Broad on the 18th, and 

 thought to be a Glossy Ibis ('Field,' Oct. 28th). The last 

 occurrence was in 1882, and, like nearly all the others, an imma- 

 ture example. The wind on the 24th was N.N.E. ; Grey Crows 

 going N.W. On the 23rd and 22nd there was practically no wind. 



