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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



parishes. Permanent pasture, especially in the vicinity of 

 woods and gardens, is where they find worms, and here this 

 thrifty bird may be seen at any time of the day, but especially 

 after rain, quite motionless for some time, with head slightly 

 turned as if listening, but in reality relying on their sharp sight 

 which detects the slightest movement of the soil. 



8th. — W.N.W., 4. Birds killed by Lightning. — About 2 p.m. 

 a violent storm of snow and hail, accompanied by twenty 

 minutes of incessant lightning, blew up from N.W. Such an 



Greater Black-backed Gull struck by Lightning. 



unusual combination caused a stampede among the horde of 

 Pink-footed Geese — estimated by Mr. Alexander Napier at nearly 

 four thousand- — which every winter make the preserved marshes 

 of Holkam their headquarters. These, flying about, exposed 

 themselves to the electric fluid, with fatal results in several 

 cases. Mr. H. M. Upcher says that altogether nineteen Geese 

 were picked up in the adjacent parishes of Bayfield, Holt, Kelling, 

 and Weybourne, which had been struck by lightning — viz. fifteen 



