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Whitebait to be seen lying about in numbers among the Terns' 

 nests, whither they had been brought by the parent birds for 

 their dying young, by that time too feeble to eat them ; or it 

 may have been that the fish were too large. One can hardly 

 imagine a nestling Tern making a meal of a Sand-Eel as large 

 as the one which is being offered by the bird in the photograph, 



Lesser Tern feeding young one. 



but in some cases, as suggested by Mr. Rowan, the old Terns 

 may have been kept off their nests too long by visitors. The 

 Terns at Wells are reported to have suffered in the same way, 

 but not those at Wolferton. 



July. 



29th. — A Tufted Duck and five young ones seen on the Bure 

 at Salhouse by Mr. H. C. Davies, and afterwards by Mr. Barclay, 

 were identified beyond dispute. A nest had been previously 

 reported to Mr. B. B. Riviere by one of the gamekeepers, which 

 doubtless produced this brood ; it may have belonged to a male 

 which Mr. Barclay and I saw on Hoveton Broad on June 11th, 

 and to a female which had been " pricked," and was known to 

 be about in that neighbourhood. The nesting of the Tufted 

 Duck on this side of Norfolk is of very rare occurrence, but I am 



