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came on board the 1 Leman and Ower ' lightship, on which his 

 nephew was stationed, so that he and his mate had no difficulty 

 in filling two large buckets with what they caught ; so many 

 Starlings also got into the lantern of the lightship, the door of 

 which had been left open to cool the lamps, that they ex- 

 tinguished two of the lights. Although the Starlings seem to 

 have migrated by themselves, this was also the time of the first 

 coming of the Rooks. The 19th was cold, wind S., 3, when the 

 annual October flight set in, and continual flocks of Eooks were 

 to be seen flapping along, with a large admixture of Jackdaws 

 and Hooded Crows ; nor had all these sable travellers passed for 



Stones in the Gizzard of a Hooded Crow (p. 135). 



quite forty hours in the vicinity of Cromer. Many birds beside 

 Corvidce were to be seen, and in particular Norfolk received 

 many Thrushes and Blackbirds, but the chief rarity was a Little 

 Bunting, which was sent to, and subsequently exhibited by, 

 Mr. H. F. Witherby. [Mr. Caton Haigh, who reports it as being 

 the second big general rush in North Lincolnshire, picked up a 

 dead Yellow-browed Warbler in that county, and saw three Black 

 Redstarts.] 



Marked Croivs. — A few days after this a Hooded Crow was 

 caught on the North Sea, on the Danish ship ' Sejrskrausen,' 



