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SOME MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM GREAT 
YARMOUTH. 
By A. H. Parrerson. 
Ir was suggested to me some iime ago by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
whose ‘Norfolk Notes” have become an institution in this 
Journal, that I should send my own direct to the ‘ Zoologist’ ; 
and I do so with the assurance that they will detract nothing 
from the interest attached to his annual contribution. 
The past year has not been marked by any great ornitho- 
logical or other event in this neighbourhood; and the abnormally 
unpleasant month of August—my month of leisure—saw but 
scant entries in my notebooks. 
Many hundreds of Dunlins came to Breydon during the first 
week in January. Wind south-east to north; whilst ‘‘ bad” 
weather drove crowds of wildfowl south. On the 17th, on a 
cruel east wind, thousands of various ducks must have passed 
along the roadstead. I saw a flock of quite sixty Brent Geese ; 
finding the remains of an Oystercatcher and a Gannet washed 
up at the tide-mark. On the 20th many of the stalls in 
the Saturday’s market were decorated with various fowl. The 
Broads had been visited by considerable numbers; Mr. Vincent, 
writing from Hickling, stated that he had seen several thousand 
Wigeon and about five hundred Pochards, Tufted Ducks, and 
Scaups. He saw fifty Sheld-Ducks on one morning, with eleven 
Goosanders, two immature Black-throated Divers, one Red- 
throated Diver, two Smews, and several Golden-Kyes. Many 
species of waders passed; and he had never seen so many Jack- 
Snipe in January before. A day or so before five Long-tailed 
Ducks had been seen. Several Pink-footed Geese, driven from 
the well-known Wash herd, were seen in East Norfolk; two 
having been exposed for sale in the market that had been killed 
at Palling. Oystercatchers were unusually numerous. 
Writing from Sheringham, Mr. W. A. Smith, on the 21st, 
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