THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 742.— April, 1903. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK FOR 

 1902, WITH REFERENCES TO SOME OCCUR- 

 RENCES IN OTHER COUNTIES. 



By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S. 



(Plate III.) 



To every ornithologist the autumn migration which takes 

 place on the east coast of England is an unceasing source of 

 wonder and delight, and, although it has been often watched and 

 described, there is still a good deal more to be learnt about it, 

 especially in regard to what is commonly understood by the 

 term " land-birds." 



During 1902 there was a good deal of restless movement, 

 and this became especially manifest in October, when several 

 rarities were evidently en route for somewhere, although that 

 " somewhere " was not the British coast, where if they come it is 

 against their will. There was much west wind in 1902 after the 

 12th October, and with a west wind our immigrants are always 

 more in evidence, because it has been against them whilst crossing 

 the North Sea, and kept them back ; consequently they do not 

 reach their destination until after daybreak, if the wind has been 

 strong. 



In Norfolk and Suffolk rarely an autumn passes without some 

 species being markedly in the ascendant, and for 1902 the Rooks 

 seem to take the first place, though it is not often that we have 

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