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of being shot as formerly, they are now protected by a paid 

 watcher. Two appeared on May 2nd (the wind in the night being 

 S., 3), one of them, according to our watcher Jary, a fine bird, the 

 other smaller. Soon after this a pair, possibly the same, were 

 seen by Mr. C. Borrer in the north of the county, and on the 6th 

 Jary reported three at Breydon. On May 20th he saw another, 

 which had found a mate on the 22nd, but they only stayed 

 until the 27th. On June 5th three more came to Breydon, these 

 being probably from Southwold, in Suffolk, where Mr. J. G. Tuck 

 had seen them the day before, but they did not stay longer than 

 the 8th. After an interval of five weeks there was another on 

 the muds on July 13th, apparently a young bird of the year, and 

 this had a companion on the 19th. Breydon Broad, however, 

 was not sufficiently quiet for their taste, and both of them had 

 gone on July 21st, but they thought better of it, and came back 

 on the 23rd, only to depart once more on the 26th, after which 

 Mr. Borrer heard that they were seen at Cley, but no more 

 came to Breydon. Although the Spoonbill has been occasionally 

 recorded in winter, it is essentially a summer migrant to the 

 eastern counties. On looking back to previous " Reports " 

 (Zool. 1904, pp. 206 etseq.), it will be seen that the earliest arrival 

 of the Spoonbill on Breydon Broad has generally been in April. 

 Since 1897 it has been noted eleven times in that month, as 

 against three in May and one in March. Sir Thomas Browne, 

 who wrote about 1663, regarded them as summer migrants 

 coming to Norfolk in March, but no doubt they were commoner 

 then ; yet he only knew of them as breeding at the mouth of the 

 Orwell, in Suffolk. 



3rd. — Three Teals' nests, containing clutches of ten, four, 

 and eight eggs (the last unfortunately trodden on by cattle), 

 were found by Mr. B. B. Riviere on one of the Broads adjacent 

 to the River Bure. 



12th. — Two nests of the Gadwall, containing respectively 

 nine and seven eggs, found by Mr. Riviere on the western side 

 of the county. Two Reeves were also seen by Mr. Riviere 

 and Mr. Meiklejohn at Fowlmere Lake, near Thetford, possibly 

 revisiting a site where their predecessors had once bred. 



21st. — An Orange-legged Hobby (?) seen on one of the Broads 

 by Mr. E. Meade- Waldo. This species and the Common Hobby, 



