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Pink-footed Geese and four White fronted Geese. Of the former, 

 seven were lying more or less in a line, but in three adjoining 

 fields, and these had possibly all succumbed to the same flash ; 

 in onet of them there was a rugged hole three inches long in the 

 back, and I hear others were struck in the same place. Mr. F. 

 A. Perkins states that the four White-fronted Geese, when found 

 two hours after the storm, were lying a few yards apart, facing 

 due south, three of them in a straight line down wind. In front 

 was an adult gander, which had been struck on the back ; one 

 of the Geese was apparently uninjured, while another had been 

 struck on the edges of both wings, but no doubt death was 

 instantaneous to all of them. During the same thunderstorm 

 a Greater Black-backed Guilt was struck at Lowestoft, of the 

 post-mortem appearance of which Mr. Southwell has given an 

 account (Norw. Nat. Trans, p. 326). A photograph taken after 

 it had been stuffed by Mr. Roberts, in such a way as to show by 

 the raised feathers the place where the lightning struck it, is 

 reproduced (ante, p. 124). 



11th. — Green Sandpiper at Intwood. 



14th. — Red-throated Diver shot on the Little Ouse two miles 

 beyond Thetford ; when held up four Roach dropped from its 

 mouth (W. G. Clarke). This was quite thirty miles from the sea. 



16th. — Mr. H. Buxton saw four Green Sandpipers on the 

 Dunston stream. 



17th.— A female Ruddy Sheld-Duck shot near Thetford, as I 

 am informed by Mr. W. Clarke— possibly an escaped bird ; also a 

 female Goosander the same week. 



23rd. — Green Sandpiper at Keswick. 



March. 



1st. — W., 5. — An exhausted Cormorant knocked over on 

 Beachamwell Common (W. G. Clarke), where its presence must 

 have been due to the gale. 



3rd. — Bittern booming on the Broads (Nudd). 



5th. — Another Green Sandpiper at Keswick, making seven 

 in the same neighbourhood in less than a month. » 



6th. — W.S.W., 4. Grey Crows and Rooks going S.E. from 

 7 a.m. until 12 a.m. at Northrepps, about one mile from the sea 

 (W. Burdett). 



