114 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
9th.— Wind N.W. A female Tawny Pipit in somewhat faded 
plumage was netted on Yarmouth denes, and exhibited at the next 
meeting of the Norf. and Nor. Nat. Soc. by Mr. Southwell, who 
took the opportunity of giving a résumé of the present status of 
Norfolk ornithology. It has been added to Mr. Connop’s exten- 
sive collection, a catalogue of which Mr. Southwell has recently 
published (Zool. ante, p. 96). 
12th.—An old Muscovy Drake attacked a Canada Goose with 
such ferocity that it completely disabled the latter, though three 
times its own size; the goose died from the wounds it had 
received. 
19th.--Another of the chestnut Partridges—the variety 
named Perdix montana—shot by Mr. H. Galton at Sparham, 
about eight miles from where some were seen last year. The 
present specimen I am informed has the back and wings a 
uniform reddish brown colour without markings, breast bluish 
white, legs yellow, head normal. ‘Two of those obtained by 
Col. Vivian last year had the whole of the breast and belly a rich 
dark chestnut, almost chocolate-colour, reminding me of a 
Grouse (cf. ‘ Field,’ Jan. 15th, 1898). This is a more striking 
variety than the bluish or stone-grey variety, which is a pale bird 
with a cream-coloured chin, which also turned up this autumn in 
one or two places in Norfolk. 
29th.— An Hider Duck watched on Breydon Broad by 
Mr. Patterson. 
NOVEMBER. 
Two Goosanders and four Mergansers are about the only 
things to be noted in this month; one Velvet Scoter, and an 
Eider Duck killed with a stone at Hemsby. Some hybrids — 
between Anas pecilorhyncha (the Indian Spot-billed Duck) and 
a Wild Duck on ponds at Keswick may be mentioned, though I 
do not think any of them are likely to escape and confuse county 
avifaunists. 
DECEMBER. 
10th.—A Coot on the river at Keswick (very unusual) and 
some Siskins on the alders, a bird of which there have been 
an unusual number at Yarmouth (Lowne). Two Magpies at 
Northrepps about this time, and a Waxwing catapulted at Wells 
(Col. Feilden). 
