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links (Sir Digby Pigott), and several more at Cley and Salthouse, 

 mostly alive (H. Pashley), while others turned up at Wells, and 

 five! at least were sent to Norwich. I had onet from Breydon 

 Broad, and have no doubt that the total movement was con- 

 siderable. Large numbers were seen on the coast of North- 

 umberland and some in Yorkshire (•' British Birds,' vi. pp. 315, 

 345). The Little Auk has long since been separated generically 

 from the Bazorbill, and stands alone the only one of its genus — 

 the genus Alle. It seems to be much commoner than it used 

 to be. 



December. 



I find but little in my notes that is worth recording for 

 December, exeept the Ibis already mentioned. On the 5th 

 Mr. Gerard Gurney flushed a good number of Short-eared Owls 

 at Ringland, on the 17th Mr. Riviere watched a Glaucous Gull 

 at Yarmouth Harbour-mouth, on the 20th there was a Rough- 

 legged Buzzard at Sidestrand, and on the 22nd a Magpie at 

 Brunstead, where Mr. Bird had never known one to be before. 



Varieties of Plumage. 



On Sept. 3rd a White Swallow! was picked up at Salthouse 

 (C. Hamond), and the day following a pied Lapwingt was shot in 

 the parish of Weybourne adjoining by Mr. Spurrell. On Oct. 

 21st Mrs. R. Clarke informs me that she received a " Sabine's 

 Snipe" from Gaywood, near Lynn, which is well known now to 

 be a melanic variety of the Common Snipe. 



On Oct. 23rd Mr. T. E. Gunn received a splendid red 

 Partridge! (Perdix montana) from Bylaugh, and on Nov. 22nd 

 Mr. Roberts had another! from Foulsham, and Mr. Gunn had 

 yet a third on Dec. 23rd. This bird weighed 15 oz., but Mr. 

 Gunn has had Norfolk Partridges of the ordinary hue which 

 weighed 19 oz. (cf. Zool. 1886, p. 480), so perhaps 15 oz. was 

 not exceptional. From Mr. Quintin Gurney I learn that there 

 are believed to be still two of this singular erythrism alive in 

 Sparham, where I lately made an attempt to see them but without 

 success. Including these, the red variety of the Partridge has 

 been recorded twenty-seven times in Norfolk, but, according to 

 Mr. Bolam's ' Birds of Northumberland ' (1912, p. 476), it has 

 been killed much oftener in that county. In Northumberland 



