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strand by Lord Hillingdon. About this time several were 

 received alive by Mr. Lowne of Yarmouth, others were reported 

 to Col. Feilden at Wells, and Mr. Pashley afterwards wrote me 

 that for three or four months, dating from the end of September, 

 they were always to be found in the places where one is accus- 

 tomed to look for them in his neighbourhood. 



5th. — S.E. Mr. Gunn received a Ring-Ouzel from Ely, and 

 about this time several appeared at Cley (Pashley), Warham 

 (E. K. Robinson), Palling (Bird), Somerton (Bird), and other 

 places. It is several autumns since we have had so many of 

 these " Michaelmas Blackbirds," well-known visitors though 

 they are ; there were also a good many in October, 1899. 



6th. — E.S.E. A Grey Shrike seen by Mr. Ernest Gunn 

 flying along the shore, and another the next day. 



8th.— S.E. , light. Many Ring-Ouzels at Cley (Pashley). 



9th. — S.S.E. A Montagu's Harrier t in female plumage, 

 mobbed by nine or ten indignant little birds ; it was hovering over 

 Northrepps bracken hills, no doubt for Field-Mice. 



11th. — S., light. An immature Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius 

 minor, Gmel.), the third for Norfolk, shot by Mr. G. E. Lodge 

 when Partridge- driving at Docking, which is about five miles 

 from the sea. On the same day a Green-backed Porphyrio put 

 in an appearance on Hickling Broad, also near the sea, where it 

 subsequently fell a victim to the gun, as announced in the 

 ' Field ' by Mr. A. H. Smith, who remarked on the presence of 

 other migratory birds. 



14th. — W. A Rough-legged Buzzard at Shottesham, circling 

 for some time over a party of shooters, but it wisely kept out 

 of range (E. Knight) ; however, the keeper picked up a Rabbit 

 it had killed. About the same time Mr. Cole, of Norwich, 

 received one to stuff, with a young chicken, and a message to say 

 that it had killed nearly twenty of the same size before its de- 

 predations could be put a stop to. In the course of the autumn 

 I heard of four or five more ; one of them, circling over Cromer 

 railway station as late as the I4th of December (H. Cole), 

 seemed, from its proximity to the sea, to have just come in. No 

 doubt the government rewards paid in Norway have already 

 lessened the supply of raptorial birds which used to come to 

 England, joined to the destructive efforts of our gamekeepers. 



