OBNITHOLOGICAL BEPORT FOB NOBFOLE. 205 



January. 



10th. — A drake Wigeon,t fourteen years old, died (E. 

 Knight). 



18th. — Nine Tufted Ducks at Hempstead (Knight). 



28th. — A well-marked drake Pintail x Mallard hybrid t, shot 

 at flight by Captain Blofeld at Hoveton, had all the appearance 

 of being a wild bird. None had been seen before on the Broad. 



February. 

 25th. — Merlin t and Green Sandpiper at Keswick. Bittern 

 booming on the Broads (M. C. Bird). 



27th. — A Mistletoe Thrush's nest t with two eggs at Hethel. 



March. 



13th. — W., 3. Grey Crows going south at Overstrand, very 

 high (W. Burdett). 



14th. — W., 2. Books coming over at Yarmouth in thousands, 

 -and flying due west (A. Patterson). 



17th. — In a parish some four miles from the coast great 

 flocks of Books were observed by Mr. Vincent to be flying south- 

 east ; also flocks of Starlings, which were coming from the east, 

 and great numbers of Fieldfares. According to my register 

 there was hardly any wind, but a change of temperature which 

 next day mantled the ground with 4 inches of snow, the cause, 

 I take it, of this movement. The snow covered the fallen acorns, 

 and Mr. Vincent at once noticed that in consequence the Wood 

 Pigeons were turning their attentions to Ivy-berries, on which 

 some Jays were also feeding. 



23rd. — E., 3. Many straggling groups of Grey Crows, 

 Books, and Jackdaws going east over Northrepps (W. Burdett). 

 Some people think that these birds are exclusively day-migrants ; 

 but I doubt that, partly from having found dead ones on the 

 shore, presumed to have fallen into the sea in the night. 

 Moreover, those which leave England in the afternoon would 

 not arrive on the other side of the North Sea while it was still 

 light, and must therefore make land by night. 



26th.— N.W., 2. Sleet falling. At 5.45 a.m. Mr. Vincent 

 saw a flock of Bramblings going W.N.W., and in the course of 



