108 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
about this time Mr. H. Pashley—to whom these Notes are, as 
usual, very much indebted—announced a marked migration of 
Sclavonian, Red-necked, and Great Crested Grebes, all driven 
by the frost to the open water of the harbour. Local observers 
were reminded of the influx of Red-necked Grebes in 1865, and 
the same desire was observed on the part of everybody to kill 
them! I believe the migration extended to Boulogne, on the 
other side of the Channel. 
During January a drake hybrid between the White-eyed Duck 
and the Pochard was taken on Saham Toney mere, and was sub- 
sequently recognized by Mr. A. W. Partridge as the so-called 
Paget’s Pochard. It is now alive at Keswick, and agrees very 
well with my father’s specimens of 1845 and 1859, which, with 
others, are fully described in Suchetet’s ‘Oiseaux Hybrides, 
pp. 152, 711. It has a yellow eye, the breast, instead of being 
black like a Pochard’s, is a rich rufous, both head and neck 
the same, and a white bar on the wing not quite so distinct as in 
Mr. Wolf’s plate in ‘ The Birds of Norfolk.’ 
FEBRUARY. 
2nd.—Quickly succeeding the Grebes, and from the same 
cause, flocks of Sky Larks were seen passing along our coast, 
escaping from the hard feeding-grounds inland, which after a 
fortnight’s continuous frost and snow threatened them with 
starvation. At Sheringham, Beeston (H. Fitch), and Cromer 
numerous flocks were to be seen, winging their way S.E., 
and against the wind, no doubt as far as Yarmouth, where 
Mr. Patterson saw them, together with Fieldfares and Redwings, 
and on to the Suffolk coast. 
3rd.—Sky Larks still coming over Yarmouth (Patterson). 
4th.— Larks passing Blakeney, Cley, and Salthouse in 
thousands (Pashley), just as in January, 1879, when the same 
phenomenon was seen. 
5th.—-Larks still passing Cley. 
8th.—Solitary Snipe shot near Cley (Pashley); an unusual 
date. 
26th.—Wind strong. Egyptian Goose shot at Shadingfield 
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