364 THE ZOOLOGIST, 



September 15th. — A Landrail found its way into a cellar, 

 where it was captured uninjured, being afterwards brought to 

 me in a paper pastry-bag, to identify it. I think of all migrants 

 this bird finds itself in the most curious of places. 



Flocks upon flocks of Dunlins and Einged Plovers (on this 

 same date), with a number of Curlew- Sandpipers in their 

 company, flying around the flats at high water ; a number of 

 Grey Plovers and Greenshanks also in evidence. So tame were 

 many that as I rowed past them, and rattled my oars in the row- 

 locks, they merely lifted their heads and went on with their 

 feeding. There had undoubtedly been many successive arrivals 

 during the past few days (vide ' Zoologist,' October, 1915) ; also 

 hundreds of Black-headed Gulls. 



September 20th. — Young Wheatears all over the place ; up to 

 the present date the arrivals of Eedstarts and other insectivorous 

 birds from the north had been numerously observed. 



September 24^. — A Pelican, undoubtedly a stray, was observed 

 on the flats by a gunner named Wigg, who disturbed it, when it 

 rose to a great height and flew away in a north-easterly direction. 



Eooks. — A flock, evidently very tired, came in on September 

 29th ; wind N.N.W., and weather very squally, with heavy dark 

 clouds. 



October 1st. — A Green "Woodpecker seen in St. George's Park, 

 in the centre of the town. Query: Was it by any chance a 

 migrant, or a wandering bird ? 



Same date. — Corvines coming over the North Sea in continuous 

 small and straggling flocks. All seemingly tired out. Strongish 

 northerly winds. October 2nd. Still arriving. Wind had veered 

 round to the south. 



October 2nd. — A flock of some dozen Godwits (Limosa lap- 

 ponica) came to Breydon, just at closing-in time ; they promptly 

 descended from a high altitude on seeing the mud-flats. Grey 

 Plovers still numerous, and attaching themselves to the flocks 

 of smaller waders. Curlew- Sandpipers have been fairly numerous 

 on the beach, a not by any means favourite resort of this species 

 locally. 



Babbits. — Eemarkably scarce just now (October 2nd), possibly 

 owing to the over-abundant rainfall, as well as the lack of 

 importations from the Continent. I gave one shilling and 



