ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 89 



mon Sandpipers at Hickling, the male of the latter mounting up 

 into the air, and " singing " like a Redshank (Bird). 



June. 



1st.— Twenty-four Sheld-Ducks at Cley (F. H. Barclay). 



2nd. — Mr. S. Bligh observed a Woodchat at Framingham 

 Earl fly down from a high fence and take a large insect, the size 

 of a May-chaffer, which it was carrying in its bill when it passed 

 him ; the under parts were dull white, the back black and white, 

 the scapular feathers looking perfectly white, as in a male, which 

 it probably was. It is many years since a Woodchat has been 

 identified in this county. 



14th. — A Grey Crow shot at Cromer by Mr. Barclay, who 

 discovered some game-eggs which it had evidently sucked close 

 by. Another seen by him near the same place on Aug. 9th. 



18th. — Mr. Southwell found the Terns at Wells quite as 

 numerous a colony as usual — the result of protection — but the 

 nests more scattered than last year. The dead bodies of a few 

 young ones, however, were lying about, and some eggs had been 

 drawn into a hole by rats. Two nests each contained the unusual 

 number of four eggs, and in a third nest was a white egg with 

 two normal ones, of which Mr. Corder obtained a good photo- 

 graph. 



29th. — Disturbed a Hawfinchf at my pea-rows, and was 

 astonished at the harm it had done ; but I believe that the Jays 

 are also answerable. 



30th. — A young Hawfinch! caught in a strawberry-net at 

 Cranmer (Davey). This bird was reared, but, being put into the 

 same cage as an old male, was so pecked that it died. 



Cuckoo Notes. — On June 17th a young Cuckoo, perhaps four 

 days old, and quite unable to see, and with the back cavity still 

 visible, was found in a Hedge- Sparrow's nest at Keswick. One 

 Hedge-Sparrow's egg still in the nest, and two naked nestlings 

 dead on the edge of it. A few days afterwards another young 

 Cuckoo was found about fifty yards from the first one, and that 

 was also in a Hedge-Sparrow's nest, and between the two Cuckoos 

 there might be a week's difference in age. Cuckoo No. 1, being 

 put in a cage, had of course to be reared by hand, which was a 

 laborious business, it being nearly six weeks old before it knew 



