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Hunstanton, and the notes of Titlarks, Snow-Buntings, Field- 

 fares, Lapwings, Golden Plover recognized. The movement went 

 on all night, for the notes of the birds were heard continually. 

 Next morning (Nov. 7th) there was a S.W. wind, but too light to 

 have any effect ; though I had better continue the narrative of 

 what Mr. Eiviere and Mr. Long saw, in the former's words : — 

 " We were out at 7 a.m., and were met by really an extraordinary 

 sight — a continuous stream of birds, all flying south past Hun- 

 stanton, following the coast-line, and flying over the beach, and 

 some over the sea — that is to say, following down the east side 



of the Wash. The birds were Hooded Crows, Rooks, Carrion- 

 Crows (or else young Rooks, but, anyhow, feathered to the bill, 

 with no bare skin around bill), Jackdaws, Lapwings, Fieldfares 

 (in large numbers), Redwings (or possibly Song-Thrushes, but I 

 think Redwings), Starlings (in enormous numbers), Sky-Larks, 

 and hundreds of small Finches, the only ones which settled or 

 came low enough to identify being Greenfinches, but I am sure 

 there were Linnets, and I distinctly heard Chaffinches. We also 

 heard Snow-Buntings. A good number of all these birds were 

 flying at a great height, especially the Fieldfares, some of which 

 were only just visible in the sky through Zeiss glasses, and I am 

 certain there must have been more, quite beyond the field of 



