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stamps the character of October and November more than the 
arrival of the Corvide on the Hast Coast. It is evident from 
the observations of Mr. Boyes, of Beverley, that the bulk of the 
Fieldfares, Redwings, Blackbirds, Bramblings, Tree-Sparrows, 
&e., made land further north.* There certainly was a passage 
of small birds of considerable strength registered by that expe- 
rienced observer Mr. H. N. Pashley on the night of Oct. 9th—fully 
accounted for by the south-east gale—but this movement did not 
synchronise with the great flight in the North of Denmark on 
the 11th. 
As usual, my best thanks are due to many correspondents for 
their co-operation, without which this Annual Report could hardly 
be carried on, and especially to the Rev. M. C. Bird, of Brunstead, 
and Mr. H. N. Pashley. 
The rainfall for the year was 25°13 in. 
JANUARY. 
1st.—When last year’s Report left off, the cold weather, 
which for a period had been almost Siberian in its intensity, 
was beginning to break up. Nevertheless, the unfortunate 
Coots, whose sufferings were described in your pages last year 
(Zool. 1907, pp. 85, 1388), continued to have a bad time of it on 
our great tidal Broad at Breydon. Nor were they much better 
off on the fresh-water Broads now frozen over, and the Rev. M. C. 
Bird writes of a good many being skated down on the ice at 
Hickling, one man getting thirty as his share. 
2nd.—A Goosander at Hye, and on the 4th Mr. W. Lowne 
received one from Buckenham, and another from Somerleyton ; 
on the 6th there was one at Hickling Broad (Rev. M. C. Bird), 
and the next day Mr. Lowne had as many as four from Brundall, 
shot on the Yare; and about the same time one or two were 
reported to Mr. H. N. Pashley. Some of the above were good 
males, I believe. At the same time several Goosanders visited 
Yorkshire. 
15th.—The Wash “‘deeps”’ and their attendant shoals have 
always been a resort of Brent Geese, though not so abundant on 
any part of our coast as formerly. On the 15th, I learn from 
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Mr. F. Coburn, of Birmingham, that an example of the Pacific 
* See the ‘ Field,’ Nov. 17th, 1907. 
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