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grass-lands, where, it is to be hoped, they found the wireworms 

 which attacked the young wheat in May. 



31st. — N. Flight of Limicolce. — Mr. Charles Clarke, of Aide- 

 burgh, on the Suffolk coast, sends the following note : — Quite at 

 the end of August he heard hundreds of shore-birds passing at 

 night over Aldeburgh, chiefly, judging by their cries, Golden and 

 Grey Plover, Lapwings, Godwits, and Dunlin ; they appeared to 

 be going in a westerly direction, and were probably attracted by 

 the town lights. 



In Norfolk, on the 31st, hundreds of Curlews, with Bar- 

 tailed Godwits, Turnstones, Whimbrel, Knot, Dunlin, Ringed 

 Plover, and Grey Plover, were seen by Mr. Jary, our watcher, 

 on Breydon Broad, possibly a part of the same flight heard 

 by Mr. Clarke. The following day the pressure of Ltimicolm 

 was felt at Blakeney ; two Dusky Redshanks, t Curlew Sand- 

 pipers, Little Stints, Knots, Golden Plover, &c. (Pashley), but 

 shore-shooting opened, and the birds soon vanished before the 

 fusillade. 



September. 



8th. — The wind at Yarmouth, which is the only Norfolk 

 station whose record is published, was registered as N.E., force 3. 



9th. — N.E., force 3. Roller at Rushford, near Thetford (E. 

 Bidwell). An Aquatic Warbler,! shot by Mr. T. E. Gunn ; this 

 appears to be an adult. It is rather singular that six years ago 

 he should have met with one at the same place, and almost on 

 the same day. 



11th. — S.S.E. A Hobby at Twyford, chasing cockchafers or 

 other beetles among the tops of some oak-trees, where it was 

 watched with much interest by a gentleman who was too good a 

 naturalist to shoot it. There is reason to think that a pair may 

 have bred in Foxley Wood this summer, but they are very rare. 

 In 1866 the late Henry Stevenson could write of the Hobby as 

 " a very regular summer visitant." 



13th. — N., strong. The wind changed to N. yesterday, and 

 became very boisterous in the evening, a fact which may account 

 for the presence of several interesting birds at different points on 

 the coast. The following, I learn from Mr. Pashley, were identified 

 to his satisfaction : — One Barred Warbler, one Little Gull, three 

 if not four Buffon's Skuas, and several Blue-throated Warblers, 



