MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM GREAT YARMOUTH. 369 



another female was killed by a passing train near Ormesby 

 station, as stated to me in a letter received on August 

 6th. 



February 13th. — My Eanworth stallkeeper had kept up a 

 goodly show of Wood-Pigeons up till this date, and to-day had a 

 considerable quantity for sale. On the 16th I examined a lot of 

 ragged-looking birds, badly coloured and with poorly denned 

 neck-patches, but in excellent condition. They varied greatly 

 in size and weight. I put three promiscuously on the scales, 

 when they turned it respectively at 15 ounces, 16 ounces, and 

 19 ounces. 



February 21st. — Breydon. — A beautiful spring-like day. 

 Breydon like a sunny lake. Several Herons —some grand old 

 males ; birds evidently pairing. Quite a sprinkling of Hooded 

 Crows. Some Wigeon. A considerable flock of Black-headed 

 Gulls ; a few adult Greater Black-backs. Some Beed-Buntings 

 along the "walls," several Curlews, some Knots, and roughly 

 two thousand Dunlins and Panged Plovers on the flats. 



Earlier in the week there were from two hundred to three 

 hundred Wigeon on Breydon. 



On February 28th I saw a beautiful Grey Wagtail (Motacilla 

 melanope) on the rafts lying beside the edge of Breydon. 



Jackdaws. — On a S.-W. wind a long flight of Jackdaws went 

 over my house, on March 5th, before breakfast. Their noisy 

 prating caused me to jump out of bed and rush to the window. 

 I observed in all some one hundred and fifty birds pass over. A 

 beach gunner had noticed this same flock from the seashore. 

 Probably they were northward bound, but had dropped in for 

 a rest on the marshes. Several flocks of Books came from east 

 flying west. This movement covered from 8 a.m. to 12 noon; 

 the last flock, coming inward against a fresh N.-W. by W. wind, 

 appeared to be much wearied, and on reaching Breydon dropped 

 low to the marshes but continued their flight, just skimming 

 the surface. 



The rookery in our market-place has been again visited by 

 an increasing number of birds. Four nests had been built by 

 March 17th, twenty nests by March 31st, and thirteen in the 

 churchyard. Two new nests in a tall tree near the park. 



March 5th. — Observed Hooded Crows "toying" after the 



