96 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. E. C. Arnold followed a strange Lark with much white in the 

 tail, and a white streak in each wing, suggestive of Alauda sibirica. 

 He also saw twelve Pied Flycatchers and one Wryneck, and. a 

 Kichardson's Skua and some Razorbills. 



2nd.— W.N. W., 3. A Pectoral Sandpiper shot at Southwold 

 ('Field')- By this time some very young Razorbills and half- 

 grown Guillemots had, as usual, found their way from Flam- 

 borough Head to Norfolk shores, where their tameness is often 

 a source of danger to them. Also some very young Little Gulls 

 perhaps come from some Danish breeding-place — and Richard- 

 son's Skuas, another regular visitant, and a few Gannets and 

 Sandwich Terns showed themselves. 



5th. — S.E. A further influx of Pied Flycatchers (Arnold). 



6th. — Woodcock at Lowestoft (H. Bunn) ; the earliest. Wind 

 yesterday evening S.E., 6. 



11th.— A Land-Rail, i picked up at Northrepps by a little 

 girl ; when found, a Rat was biting its neck, from which much 

 blood flowed ; there was also a slight abrasion on its head, as if 

 from collision with some tree or wall. The little girl took off 

 the Land-Rail to bury it, but, discovering that it was only sham- 

 ming death, brought it to me instead. The next morning it did 

 not seem much the worse, and was soon running about the lawn 

 as brisk as ever, but concealed itself when watched. The follow- 

 ing day it was half a mile away, and was caught trying to force 

 its way through a wire-gate, which by using its wings it might 

 easily have got over. 



13th.— S. to S.W., fine, 4. The beach reported by Mr. E. C. 

 Arnold to be alive in certain places with numbers of small birds 

 of passage, which had come in the night, including many 

 Common Linnets. Also many Redstarts, Sky-Larks, Pipits 

 (one of them thought by Mr. Arnold to be a Richard's Pipit), 

 &c, one Snow-Bunting, one Reed-Bunting, one Ortolan Bunt- 

 ing, but only a single Pied Flycatcher. The Arctic Tern and 

 Scaup-Duck were also identified, and about one hundred Golden 

 Plover. 



15th. — N.E., 3. Mr. Lowne took a Pied Flycatcher in a net- 

 trap on the "denes," and, lending it to a birdcatcher, the latter 

 took another with it ; others were also seen. On the same day 

 the * Field ' reported an Aquatic Warbler t in Norfolk, and Mr. 

 Pashley had information of a few Bluethroats. 



