134 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



September. 

 (The rainfall during September was only 1*15 in.) 



1st.— Therm. 88-4°. Grey-headed Wagtail at Blakeney (H. 

 Pashley). 



2nd. — Six Black Terns on the Broads (R. Gurney), and two 

 on the coast (A. Ritchie). 



3rd. — S., 2. A little flock of four Glossy Ibises seen on 

 Breydon Broad were, Mr. Patterson assures me, well identified. 

 There must be some connection between their advent and that of 

 the thirteen Red-crested Pochards on the 4th, and the great heat- 

 wave we are having — 93° was registered to-day by Mr. A. W. 

 Preston on a screened thermometer, and 92*2° yesterday. These 

 Ibises were soon disposed of, for I presume they are the same 

 which were shot in three different places in Ireland and one in 

 Sussex shortly afterwards. Another was also killed in Devon- 

 shire (ante, p. 21). 



4th. — N.W., 4. Immediately following the party of Ibises — 

 and impelled no doubt by the same cause — came a misguided 

 flock of thirteen Red-crested Pochards, which settled on Breydon 

 Broad (Zool. 1906, p. 394), never to return. Eightt were taken 

 to Mr. E. Saunders, who, from the worn state of their tails, and 

 their abraded plumage (particularly on the breast and lower 

 parts), justly formed the opinion that they were all old birds. They 

 certainly are in complete eclipse of plumage, even the drakes 

 being quite dun-coloured all over, but with darker heads. 



8th. — As announced in the 'Field,' another pair of Red- 

 crested Pochards met their fate on our principal Broad ; the 

 remnant of the flock already mentioned. 



12th. — S.E., 1. A second pair of Red-crested Pochards on 

 the same Broad as the last, but, more fortunate than the pair 

 on the 8th, they escaped. 



18th.— N.W. [E.N.E., 6, at Yarmouth.] Mr. Pashley con- 

 siders that the first of those "rushes" of small birds which 

 come to our coast almost annually commenced with the northerly 

 gale on this day. As usual, the tide of little migrants ran 

 strongest on that portion of Norfolk which lies between Wells 

 and Sheringham, where more migrants make land than probably 

 in any other place in England. 



