136 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



October. 



(A fine month ; temperature exceeding 60° on eighteen days, 

 A. Preston.) 



2nd. — S.W., 4, raining. Observed a good many Thrushes, 

 Starlings, Sky-Larks, &c, moving against the wind. The plain- 

 tive wails of a pair of Bed-throated Divers were quite audible 

 from the shore, and while watching them a Buzzard passed 

 with a flock of some seventy Books, with which it had joined 

 company. 



23rd. — S.E., 3. Beceived from Mr. Patterson a Bed-throated 

 Diver, f which retained quite a third of its red-neck patch, and a 

 few days afterwards (30th) he showed me another which had 

 moulted every primary and secondary quill in its wings, so that 

 for two or three weeks it must have been much at the mercy of 

 the tide. A Bed-crested Pochard,! a male assuming its adult 

 plumage, shot at Potter Heigh am (E. Saunders). 



24th. — Four Pink-footed Geese shot by Mr. Hamond. 



25th. — Thousands of Fieldfares coming in at Wells (P. 

 Hamond). 



29th.— N.W. to W.S.W., 5. At 10 p.m. a Woodcock passed 

 through Howard Street, Yarmouth, and settled on one of the 

 Town Hall windows, being ultimately captured (B. Dye). Many 

 migrants watched arriving (Bamm). 



30th. — S., 6. Mr. Pashley was informed by shooters of 

 their seeing from one hundred and fifty to two hundred Black- 

 birds (which were unable to make headway against the gale 

 which was blowing) round or near to an old railway carriage 

 which had been placed for shelter about two hundred yards from 

 the sea. 



November. 



2nd. — Little Gull at Cley, and a very late Wheatear ; also 

 some Shore-Larks and Lapland Buntings (Pashley). 



3rd. — Two Gadwall and a Golden-eye shot on Hickling 

 Broad. 



5th. — Mr. B. Gurney shot a drake Velvet Scoter at Hickling, 

 as well as some Scaup, Shovelers, Pochard, Wigeon, and Mallard. 

 Seven more Scoters were seen (Nudd). 



7th. — A Little Grebe picked up in St. Swithin's Alley, which 



