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shot, and the Hoopoes which winter further south, i. e. in Spain, 

 Algeria, and Italy, do not travel so far as England, for their 

 migratory instinct tells them that their proper limit is the middle 

 and north of France. 



The rainfall for 1905 was 23*95 in. (E. Knight). The direc- 

 tion and force of the wind have been taken from the Daily 

 Weather Eeports for Yarmouth. 



As many birds have been notified without exact dates, such 

 are entered with d.u. (=date uncertain) against them. 



Januaky. 



1st. — An Osprey seen over Hickling Broad, formerly a favourite 

 resort of this fine fisher (A. Nudd) ; I never heard of one in 

 January before. 



5th. — The first snow soon passed away, and there was no 

 weather hard enough to bring Whoopers. To-day, with a high 

 wind (W., 4), my nephew saw about ten large " skeins " of 

 Pink-footed Geese, some of them numbering over fifty, in Holkam 

 Bay. Mr. A. Napier believes that the numbers on the Holkam 

 and Burnham marshes exceed two thousand, surely the largest 

 resort of Pink-footed Geese in Britain. A pair once remained as 

 late as June, but generally they leave at the end of March. 



20th. — E.N.E., 5. Fifteen Woodcocks on the coast at Bun- 

 ton, probably just arrived. We often have a flight as late as 

 this, and these winter flights often synchronise with the advent 

 of Blackbirds, Snipe, Wood-Pigeons, &c, and are very profitable 

 to the sportsman. 



23rd.— A Bittern seen at Brancaster. 



25th.— W.N. W., 3. A Water-Pipit f (Anthus spipoletta) , 

 female, shot near the beach ; it closely resembles a Eock-Pipit, 

 but has been pronounced by Mr. Howard Saunders to be of this 

 species, as indicated by the outer pair of tail-feathers, which are 

 more than half white, as are as the tips of the second pair. All 

 the tail-feathers are worn, especially the two middle ones, which 

 are greatly abraded in this example, the first identified for Nor- 

 folk. It has been added to Mr. Connop's museum (Pashley). I 

 met with a good many of this species in Switzerland this summer 

 (1905) at the Eiffel Alp. 



