134 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



and cm several occasions Mr. Napier managed to crawl within a 

 hundred yards, so as to plainly see the black primaries every 

 time they unfolded or raised a wing. I was not so fortunate as 

 he had been, but thanks to his piloting on Dec. 1st we got on 

 that day within a quarter of a mile of the two white ones, and 

 when they rose with the whole flock of some five hundred Pink- 

 footed Geese from the grass on which they had been scattered it 

 was a sight to be remembered. At the beginning of January 

 the Snow Geese were joined by two more anomalous strangers, 

 described as being of a lemon tint in plumage, but up to the 

 time of going to press their identity had not been established. 

 The question is whether these Geese, as well as four Snow 

 Geese, recorded as being recently seen in Ireland (Zool. 1909, 

 p. 77), are wild ones, or whether they have not, as seems 

 probable, flown from Woburn, where the Duchess of Bedford 

 bred a good many, and allowed the young ones to fly un- 

 pinioned. 



November. 



5th. — W.S.W., 2. To-day Rooks, Grey Crows, Jackdaws, 

 Starlings, a flock of one hundred and fifty Wood-Pigeons, Field- 

 fares, Ptedwings, and Lapwings — one flock of two hundred— were 

 seen arriving from over the sea by the gardener at Northrepps, 

 in an almost continuous stream from 6.50 a.m., when he went 

 out, to 8.15 a.m., after which the stream slackened, and there 

 were only stragglers. Probably the flight had been going on long 

 before he got up, for the birds which we see by day may not be a 

 thousandth part of what arrive before it is light, when we have 

 little or no cognizance of their flights overhead. It was rather 

 remarkable that three days afterwards, the weather being very 

 fine, Eooks were to be seen near Norwich, with settled purpose 

 going north, but it was against the wind, as was the direction of 

 those arriving in England on the 5th. 



[18th. — Lanceolated Warbler shot in Lincolnshire.] 



December. 

 1st. — W.S.W., 3. A very late Wheatear seen at Eccles-on- 

 the-Sea by Mr. Bird.* I have not before this had a later date for 

 the Wheatear than Nov. 2nd. 



* Another on Jan. 3rd, 1910, at Twyford (C. Hamond). 



