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Earlham, and no Black-headed Gulls’ nests at Hoveton Broad 
this summer, as I learn from Mr. Barclay they have moved to 
Alderfen, more to their liking, and a few miles off. 
16th.—Chiffchaff in full song still at Twyford, and Chiffchaffs 
and Willow-Warblers were heard there at intervals throughout 
the autumn (C. Hamond). 
AUGUST. 
5th.—W. A Spoonbill on Breydon (Jary), but it had gone 
next day, and no more were seen this year. 
8th.—Young Cuckoo being fed by Willow-Warblers at Brun- 
stead (Bird). Both ours at Keswick were this year in Wagtails’ 
nests, + one nestiing being about five days in advance of the 
other. 
19th.—Gadwall (immature) at Potter Heigham (W. Lowne), 
not likely to have been bred there. 
26th.—An Osprey seen at Smallburgh (M. Bird), and two 
days afterwards the same or another seen on the Broads by 
Miss Turner. 
SEPTEMBER. : 
5th.—S.W. 4. It was not until September that the coast 
migration proper set in. [wasin Scotland, but several rare birds 
seem to have been passing. As stated by Dr. F'. G. Penrose in 
‘British Birds,’ a Yellow-breasted Bunting} was shot near Wells 
by a son of one of the Earl of Leicester’s gamewatchers ; the wind 
the preceding evening had been 8. 4, but in the morning N.W. 3. 
Russia is the country it would be expected to have come from, 
but it goes as far as Syria, according to authors. I am indebted 
to Mr. A. Napier for a sight of this Bunting, which is to be added 
to Lord Leicester’s collection. 
11th.—N.H. 2. Mr. H.C. Arnold, who was staying on the 
coast, saw a Red-breasted Flycatcher, but adds that it was not 
identified with certainty. Itis probably an annual visitor to our 
coast, though overlooked until of late years. 
18th.—§8.W. variable to N.E.,1. Seven Grey Geese seen by 
Mr. Arnold in Blakeney Estuary, where a day or two afterwards 
I heard of a Long-tailed Duck, a female Kider Duck, and two 
young Gannets. 
26th.—Ring-Ouzel at Northrepps, where my gardener says it 
remained three days close to a large elder-bush, which I believe 
