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THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 904.— October 16th, 1916. 



SOME MISCELLANEOUS NOTES EEOM GEEAT 

 YAEMOUTH (1915-16). 



By Arthur H. Patterson. 



My Note-books covering the past twelve months present a 

 leaner series of entries than has been the case for many years 

 past. Breydon, and the marshlands surrounding here, offered 

 neither the normal variety of even familiar species, nor any, save 

 in a few instances, remarkable by their numbers. Something, 

 I suspect, must be placed to the universal unrest and disturbance 

 over broader areas than my own ; besides, the military restric- 

 tions have closed to such as myself large tracts of old-time 

 rambling haunts. As it happened, when wandering on the 

 Denes during the Easter East Coast bombardment, I was within 

 an ace of being arrested as " a suspicious person " by a stolid 

 old sergeant of artillery, who required much information to even 

 half satisfy himself ; and on another occasion, when out ditch- 

 hunting with a member of the Microscopical Society, our basket 

 of pickle-bottles and sundry was overhauled by a much-amused 

 sergeant and sentry. To an occasional sentry command, "You 

 musn't go that way, guv'nor ! " one has become quite resigned : 

 my binoculars have become such a source of interest to vigilant 

 guards that I find it best now to make the least possible display 

 of them. 



Only a few items on matters ornithological presented them- 

 selves as more than common-place : they are the " off and on " 



Zool. 4th ser., vol. XX., October, 1916. ff 



