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remains of game. It always makes my blood boil to see this 

 useful bird proscribed by the unthinking gamekeeper. A few 

 weeks afterwards another incident happened, which shall be 

 related to the credit of Owls. A boy at Northrepps, noticing a 

 young Long-eared Owl on the ground, concluded it had fallen 

 out of its nest, which he searched for and soon found. The nest 

 contained seven young Eats, which in a few weeks would have 

 been full grown, and ready to prey on the young hand-reared 

 Pheasants, of which these woods are full. 



7th. — Eight Black Terns seen on Breydon Broad (B. Dye). 



10th. — A gentleman photographed on the Broads a Garganey 

 Teal's nest of eleven eggs ; incubation already commenced. Two 

 pairs had been seen a few days before (Bird). 



11th. — A Water-Piail's nest with six eggs, and three Pheasant's 

 eggs as well, found by a reliable observer on the margin of one of 

 the Broads (Bird). 



13th. — N., 2, stormy. Twelve Black Terns on Breydon Broad 

 (Jary). 



14th. — N., 4. Four Cormorants at Hickling. 



15th.— N.N.W., 5. A good flock of Black Terns at Wells 

 (d. u., Cringle). 



16th.— Blue-throated Warbler at Potter Heigham (M. Bird). 



17th. —Fifteen Black Terns on Breydon Broad (Jary). 



24th. — A small boy found a nest of three eggs at Sculthorpe, 

 near Fakenham, which are apparently those of the Marsh- 

 Warbler {Acrocephalus palustris). The nest was on the bog, on 

 the side of one of the big tussocks which grow to the height of 

 about two feet. The boy brought the eggs to Mr. A. P. Macklin, 

 by whom the photograph of them was taken. Mr. Macklin has 

 compared them with continental eggs of A. palustris, and finds 

 that they agree both in ground tint and markings (cf. illustra- 

 tion on opposite page). 



29th. — An Osprey seen by Mr. H. Buxton on Fritton Lake, 

 and on the same day two were seen on Hickling Broad (Bird) ; 

 fortunately none of them were shot. 



31st. — A Swallow which is building in our verandah was 

 to-day rounding the inside of its nest with its breast, after laying 

 on several good beakfuls of mud. 



