ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT FOR NORFOLK. % 167 



Principal Rarities. — The principal rarities during 1913 were 

 a Sea Eagle in March, an Ortolan Bunting in April, a Night 

 Heron (?) in May, two Eoseate Terns in June, a Yellow-breasted 

 Bunting (Emberiza aureola), five more Ortolans, and two Barred 

 Warblers in September, a Glossy Ibis in October, and the inrush 

 of Waxwings in November and December. From a beautifully 

 executed drawing of the Yellow- breasted Bunting with which 

 Mr. E. C. Arnold has obliged me, it can be seen how close a 

 resemblance there is to his first one, of which the ' Zoologist ' 

 gave a figure (1906, plate ii.). This rare Bunting has been added 

 to Mr. W. B. Lysaght's fine collection. 



Weather Conditions. — The autumn was a very fine one, and 

 was protracted far into November, the first sharp frost not 

 occurring until the 23rd of that month (A. W. Preston). Bainfall 

 23"52. The figures used for denoting the force of the wind are 

 the same as at the Meteorological Office in South Kensington. 

 Force 1 is not enough to move a weather-cock, force 3 is a gentle 

 breeze, and force 5 a fresh breeze sufficient to make smacks 

 shorten sail, while force 7 is a moderate gale, in which they 

 remain in harbour, with a velocity attaining to 32-38 miles 

 an hour. 



January. 



1st. — The New Year opened with Thrushes in song, and 

 a day afterwards the Mistle-Thrush and Sky-Lark were also 

 singing at Brunstead, and a Bearded Tit was detected by my 

 correspondent, the Rev. M. C. Bird on the common. 



17th.— A Bernicle Goose taken on that once celebrated resort 

 of wildfowl, Breydon Broad, where I have not heard of one since 

 January, 1910 (E. C. Saunders). 



20th.— Shoveller at Calthorpe (M. C. Bird). 



23rd.— Great flock of Golden Plover at Horsey (M. C. Bird). 



26th. — The Bittern's boom heard on the Broads, one of the 

 earliest of spring sounds there. Plenty of Jays about, and more 

 cock Blackbirds than usual. 



February. 



1st. — At Mr. Ptobert's to-day a Slavonian Grebe,t a Great 

 Crested Grebe, and a Pted-throated Diver, t all just sent from 

 P»,ockland Broad ; the Slavonian Grebe's eye was red, encircled 



