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(53 lb.), but this is a good deal less than two I weighed last 
year. 
29th. —S.H. 5. <A Yellow-browed Warbler shot at Cley 
(H. Pashley); the other Norfolk example was obtained on 
Oct. 1st, 1894. The following day (S.S.E. 4) a Red-breasted 
Flycatcher was identified, and a Spotted Crake occurred at 
Wiveton (Pashley), not a common bird at any time. 
3lst.—S.W. 2. The Desert-Wheatear is a bird which we 
have been expecting for some time, but it does not appear to 
have been identified in Norfolk or Suffolk until to-day, when I 
am informed of one being shot near the sea. This is a large 
example,t a male bird, and apparently an old one from its 
plumage, measuring, after it was stuffed, 6°3 in. from tip of tail 
to tip of beak ; throat richly mottled with black, on the back a 
delicate buff tint. This is only the second occurrence of the 
Desert-Wheatear in England. The first one, obtained in York- 
shire in October, 1885, was a young female, not so large a bird 
as the present example; it has appeared oftener in Scotland 
and Heligoland. On the same day a male Fire-crested Wren, 
which had quite lost its way, was caught in the town of 
Yarmouth and taken to Mr. J. H. Knights, to whom I am in- 
debted for a painting of it ; so possibly the two birds came over — 
in company. ‘The wind the day before had been S. 4, from which — 
quarter it had been blowing strong since the 28th. 
NOVEMBER. 
3rd.—A Great Grey Shrike at Yarmouth (Patterson), and 
about this time (D. vu.) the same or another was seen at Westacre 
by Mr. Birkbeck. 
7th.—A Gadwall shot on Hoveton Broad by Mr. Barclay, and 
the following month another on Hickling Broad (Bird). Their 
presence on the eastern side of the county was until recently 
quite exceptional. 
14th.—Ninety-six Scoter Ducks shot to wooden decoys off 
Hunstanton (‘ Hastern Daily Press’), where this form of sport is 
in great request, but such a large bag is unusual. The following 
day seventy-eight more were killed. 
16th.—Mr. Farman saw a Waxwing—the only one, I think, 
