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of birds before they are turned down unpinioned, their identity 

 would be always easy to establish. 



25th. — Norfolk has shared in the visitation of the Glossy 

 Ibis, a fine male having frequented the River Bure near Lud- 

 ham for some weeks, only to fall on the 25th to the gun of a 

 passing wherrynaan. Nearly all the wherries carry guns. The 

 migration seems to have taken place about the second week of 

 October, and the birds to have spread themselves over Sussex 

 (four), Scilly Islands (one), Herefordshire (one), Scotland (two), 

 Ireland (two), after arriving on the south coast ; it would have 

 been interesting to trace the line. 



December. 



11th. — S.E. A Little Bustard shot at Caister-by-the-Sea 

 was a male, Mr. Lowne informs me, and had inside it enough 

 carrot- and turnip-tops to weigh five and a half ounces. Four 

 days before another of these winter migrants was shot at the 

 mouth of the Humber ('Naturalist'), which had no doubt come 

 the same journey, but from where is a mystery. The nearest 

 place where any breed, and there only very rarely, is Garentan, 

 near Cherbourg, ,/icfo Le Mennicier. 



13th. — Mr. Cole, of Norwich, received a Fork-tailed Petrel 

 which had been picked up at Brandon, fully forty miles from 

 the sea. 



Varieties. 



Pied varieties of birds are a good deal commoner some years 

 than they are in others, for which there is no known reason ; but 

 very few have been heard of in 1902. A cinnamon Starling at 

 North Walsham (W. Lowne), and a cock Redstart t with pale 

 grey wings at Lakenham, are the only ones worth mentioning. 

 The " spangled " Partridge (Zool. 1900, Plate II., p. 97) has not 

 turned up. A Short-eared Owl with more white than usual on 

 the facial disk was shot on Nov. 24th near the sea. 



I received through Mr. Reeve a hybrid Linnet X Bullfinch, 

 which had been bred in Norwich by the same successful bird- 

 fancier who sent me one of this same cross in October, J 893. In 

 both instances the Linnet was probably the male parent and the 

 Bullfinch the female (see Norwich Nat. Trans, iv. p. 369), and 

 Zool. Uk ser. vol. VII., April, 1903. M 



