418 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
testified to the hordes of duck working south on the strong 
east wind. He recorded, among others, a Green Sandpiper, 
a Temminck’s Stint, and a Little Auk, faken during the bad 
weather. 
During the scouring tides of the middle of January I saw 
many Radiated Trough Shells (Mactra stultorum) washed up at 
the harbour mouth; and considerable quantities of Whelks were 
thrown up on the Gorleston side. Huge quantities of coarse 
brown Wracks were flung ashore also. 
On January 24th a person living in one of the oldest streets 
produced for my inspection three House-mice which had been 
trapped. There were white, floury-looking, fungus-like growths 
on their heads; in one instance the eye and part of the head 
seemed to have been eaten away. Subsequently I had two or 
three others shown me. The ‘affliction’? answered to the 
description of ‘‘ favus,’ a parasitic fungus known as Achorion 
scheenteinu, a conviction confirmed by one or two medical 
gentlemen to whom I sent specimens. The county analyst 
succinctly remarked that ‘‘cats play with these mice and pass 
the disease on to their human playmates,” a possibility I was 
afraid of ; and I, in consequence, impressed upon the mother of 
the household to keep her youngsters away from contact with 
any traps or dead mice, advice that proved not unnecessary, 
when, later on, she assured me that among some kittens born 
not long after, one of them was already afflicted by the disease, 
and was destroyed. Since then the “breed” appears to have 
been exterminated. A local doctor, with knowledge of slum- 
life in Edinburgh, assured me he had seen cases in human 
beings where the disease had obtained a hold not easily or 
quickly eradicated. 
On January 24th a local gunner out with a shoulder gun on 
Breydon water saw a large bird crouching in a stranded fish- 
basket ; on kicking it over, the bird—a Bittern—flew out, and 
was promptly killed, an infraction of the Norfolk Protection Act 
that passed unheeded. 
Several Little Auks came in with the advent of February. 
One caught alive was brought to me on the 2nd. Another was 
captured at Upton, near Acle, and unsuccessfully persuaded to 
feed on turnips by its captor. 
