134 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



and it is many years since I have heard of any eggs in the 

 Cromer district. 



September. 



1st. — W. This being the day on which Norfolk shore- 

 shooting now opens (except for Ducks), I took a long walk on 

 the beach, annexing a Temminck's Stint,f adult male, and 

 noticing a great many young Turnstones. High-tide mark pre- 

 sented its usual line of zoological rubbish, including fifteen 

 remnants of Little Auks, one Razorbill, one Guillemot, four 

 young Puffins, five Starlings, and a Rook ; but most of these 

 had been dead a long time, and the Little Auks since March. 

 The show of Terns was very good, and when this is the case we 

 always, in September, have Richardson's Skuas, and I obtained 

 a good opportunity of watching their piratical habits, though I 

 must say the Lesser Terns are altogether too confiding, lending 

 themselves to robbery by flying about with fish in their mouths, 

 which it would be much easier to swallow. Probably they catch 

 more fish than they can eat ; anyhow, the dexterous Skua sees 

 his opportunity, and, dashing at the Tern, easily catches the 

 silvery prey before it can reach the water. 



3rd. — My nephew, who was sleeping on board a smack, saw 

 Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, Whimbrel, 

 Shelduck, Gannet; and, on tbe shore, Whitethroat, Ring-Ouzel, 

 and what he believed to be two Blue-throated Warblers ; and his 

 companion shot several Turnstones, and another man shot a 

 Scoter. 



5th. Three Black-tailed Godwits reported on Breydon (Pat- 

 terson). 



6th. — Went to Cley again, and saw, at Mr. Pashley's, a very 

 young Red-necked Grebef with dark facial stripes, which had 

 been shot on Blakenny bar. The occurrence of such immature 

 Grebes is certainly curious, and this is the third, if not the 

 fourth Podicipes griseigena taken at Cley, and two of them were 

 not full grown (c/. Booth's ' Rough Notes,' pt. xiii. ; Zool. xi. 

 p. 142) ; yet there does not seem any likelihood that they are 

 English-bred ones. 



8th. — Solitary Snipe in Yarmouth market (Patterson). 



9th. — W. Five Blue-throated Warblers seen at Cley, of 



