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J 8th.— E. The wind changed from W. to E., and Mr. E. Kay 

 Robinson observed many birds coming in near Wells, including 

 numbers of Hooded Crows, Rooks, and Jackdaws, as well as 

 Fieldfares, some Snipe, and a few belated House-Martins. 



19th. — Fine. Mr. Patterson saw birds coming over from 

 earliest morning, flying high, amongst them Lapwings. 



20th. — W. Mr. Patterson saw more migrants coming over. 



23rd. — N.N.W., strong. Hundreds of Gulls, chiefly the 

 larger sorts, came on to Somerton and Horsey Broads (Bird) ; 

 this and the 24th were the days on which the great arrival of 

 Rooks took place. Mr. Bird writes that he has seldom seen 

 such a constant influx as on the 23rd. The wind was light at 

 Norwich, but strong at Yarmouth (force 4), and Spurn Head 

 (force 4). 



31st. — A Water-Rail caught in the town at Yarmouth (Pat- 

 terson). 



November. 



1st. — I am indebted to Mr. Patterson for the following : — A 

 lightship man who had come ashore from the " Outer Dowsing," 

 which rides well out to sea, informed him that in November, for 

 two or three days, Rooks, Hooded Crows, and Jackdaws swarmed 

 round the lightship, and he believed at one time there were nearly 

 one thousand of them on board, sitting about the bulwarks, 

 cabin-tops, ropes, fittings, &c. The weather was foggy. 



3rd. — S.S.E. A good many Water-Rails on the coast, and a 

 fresh arrival of Shore-Larks (Pashley). 



19th. — E. Repeated flocks of Jackdaws coming in from the 

 sea at Yarmouth (Patterson), as many as fifty in a bunch. 



21st. — No fewer than twenty-three Mistle- Thrushes in my 

 garden on one yew-bush, eating the berries, the remains of which 

 they afterwards voided in a red pulp. 



22nd. — A Flamingo shot in the Wash, supposed to have been 



one released by the Duke of Bedford. If the plan was adopted, 

 of putting thin rings* of white metal or aluminium on the legs 



* The above figure represents an interlocking ring for large birds. 



