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Barred Warbler was identified by Mr. Richards on or near the 

 shore, as well as three or four Ortolan Buntings, and a few 

 Bluethroats ; these latter always an indication of the great 

 September movement being in progress. 



3rd. — E.N.E., 2, at the mouth of the little river Glaven, where 

 a Razorbill and a Great Crested Grebe in the estuary marked its 

 continuation; while inland a solitary Snipe was shot (T. E. 

 Gunn), and a few days afterwards Mr. Gunn had two more. 



4th. — Mr. Arthur Patterson, ever on the qui vive, had a wave 

 of small migrants at Yarmouth to record to-day, the town park 

 being full of Redstarts, Willow Warblers, Robins, &c, so that 

 Mr. Patterson thought there were seventy in one clump of 

 shrubs. Birds of all sorts were now on the move, and Mr. 

 Arnold, with his usual good fortune, annexed a Yellow-breasted 

 Bunting (Emberiza aureola) near " The Hood." In his diary the 

 wind is entered as N.E., 1, with a squall, while in mine it is 

 marked as E., 2, at 8 a.m. The two previous occurrences of 

 this Asiatic Bunting were with a very light N.W. wind (1), and 

 a N.E. (4). There is nothing to beat a strong east or north-east 

 wind to bring a big rush, as witness what happened in September, 

 1903 (see 'Zoologist,' 1904, p. 209). But besides rare birds, 

 there was great restlessness among some of the commoner ones, 

 especially Whinchats, of which species about forty were counted 

 in one small field of cut peas, about a mile and a half from the 

 sea, and that in a parish where at other times they are unknown, 

 but, like the Redstarts, they did not stay long. 



6th. — At 8 a.m. the wind at Northrepps was N.E., 1, where 

 fifteen minutes later the gardener saw a Greater Spotted Wood- 

 pecker fly over the house, followed a few minutes afterwards by 

 a Wader whistling loudly. This was the day on which the first 

 Bluethroats were seen at Lowestoft by Mr. C. B. Ticehurst. 



9th. — S.W. to N.W., with rain at Blakeney. House Martins 

 passing along the beach (Arnold). Six Sand Martins t going 

 north-west against the wind at Overstrand. Swifts passing at 

 Stalham (Bird). 



10th. — The old Cuckoos have all left, but the young are now 

 on migration. To-day Mr. E. T. Roberts received a well-grown 

 young bird, evidently a flier, and having the curiosity to examine 

 its stomach, found therein on dissection a dense mass of rather 



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