ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK. 95 



July. 



4th. — Two Hawfinches at Cromer (Barclay). 



6th. — Spoonbill seen at Hickling Broad (Bird). 



8th. — E. After an interval of thirty-two days the watcher 

 was able to announce another Spoonbill, apparently a fresh one, 

 on Breydon muds, where it was generally to be seen at low tide 

 until the 10th, when the wind was S.E., and after that it was 

 seen no more, nor were any others seen. Making a fair allow- 

 ance for the same birds being observed several times over, it is 

 probable that only thirteen individual Spoonbills visited Norfolk 

 during 1904 — a nice quantity, but still less than were seen on a 

 single day in 1894. 



loth. — A pair of Green Sandpipers at Southacre decoy 



(E. T. Daubeny). Others are reported to have summered at 



Kimberley (Bird). 



August. 



1st. — Mr. Bird was able to notify a Jack-Snipe, on the 

 authority of Nudd, who is too experienced a keeper to have 

 made a mistake — an uncommonly early arrival. On the same 

 authority, a few days earlier, he notes some Ruffs and Garganey ' 

 Teal, and a Grasshopper-Warbler's nest with eggs in the Broad 

 district. 



9th. — W.N.W., 3. A compact flock of about sixty Whimbrel 

 came in from the sea at Yarmouth ; on reaching Breydon Broad 

 they were seen by Mr. Patterson to open out like a fan, but 

 presently recovered their formation and passed on. 



10th. — Mr. E. C. Saunders saw a Wood- Sandpiper near 

 Yarmouth. 



24th. — Two Buffs offered in Yarmouth market (B. Dye). 



September. 

 1st. — N.W. Dunlin, as usual, abundant on the north coast 

 of the county, but Knots later in arriving than last year. The 

 following shore birds were identified to-day by self and friends : 

 Dunlin, two hundred to three hundred ; Knot, one ; Little Stint, 

 two ; Sandpiper, one ; Pigmy Curlew, four ; Greenshank, two ; 

 Redshank, eight ; Turnstone, three ; Ringed Plover, several ; 

 Curlew, one ; Oystercatcher, one ; Sheld-Duck, two ; besides a 

 nice show of Common and Lesser Terns, thanks to protection. 



