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falling all day, accompanied by an easterly gale. At 5.30 p.m. 

 6| in. had been registered in my garden. At Norwich 7 '34 in. 

 fell in fourteen consecutive hours (A. Preston). Enormous 

 damage was done throughout Norfolk by this terrific downpour, 



which, as the map shows, was especially heavy near Norwich, 

 and between that town and Cromer. Many Pheasants were 

 drowned, and a certain number of Partridges, but other species 

 did not seem to suffer appreciably. 



Septembek. 



3rd.— N.W. to S.W., rain. As stated in 'British Birds' 

 (p. 220), a Barred Warbler — a species of which ' The Zoologist ' 

 gave a good figure in 1909, by Mr. Arnold (Plate II.) — was shot at 

 Cley, which, with the projecting promontory of Blakeney, now 

 purchased by the National Trust, acts as a concentration area for 

 many rare birds. Three more were seen there, and another was 

 identified at Lowestoft by Mr. C. B. Ticehurst a few days before. 

 Two also occurred in Yorkshire {I. c. p. 217), besides three in 

 Shetland and two in the Isle of May (' Scottish Naturalist,' 1913, 

 pp. 51, 67), and one in Ireland ; so the British Isles were 

 extensively visited by Sylvia nisoria in 1912. Even allowing for 

 the great increase in observers, this species must surely be 

 admitted to be more common than formerly. 



10th. — The first appearance of Pink-footed Geese at Holkham, 

 noted by Dr. Penrose. 



14th. — Au Arctic Tern on Brevdon Broad (B. Dye). 



